 Now, we turn our attention from the past toward the future. The Linus Pauling Institute is moving into a new era. The legacy of Balt's fry will never be forgotten, but now we're in the hands of new stewards. All of the Institute today will forge ever forward, and to give us a glimpse of the future of the Linus Pauling Institute, I'd like to invite our new director who starts January 1, 2018, Dr. Richard Van Bremen, to come up to the stage, tell us about your vision. I understand you've got a few slides up your sleeve. Welcome. It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks, Maret, for organizing a fantastic conference. I know I'm the only thing standing between you and dessert, so I don't want to dwell too long, but we've got a great facility, great building. Balt's fry has definitely done a fantastic job bringing together a group of investigators, developing the Linus Pauling Institute, helping to, with the support, of course, of all the friends of the LPI and the university, Oregon State, and all the donors to build a great building. Fred mentioned the word synergy a little earlier in his talk, and I think this is what this building helps to do for the LPI, bringing together a talented group of investigators, junior investigators, students, visiting scholars, staff, and together they can do a lot more together as a group than they could possibly carry out individually. And the building helps to coalesce this whole idea and create the synergy. I want to just reiterate the mission of the Linus Pauling Institute is threefold. Of course, the basic science and the working, as we heard, mechanisms of action that drives the hypothesis-driven research that is essential to the basic science mission. Understanding, did I do that with the, oh well. OK, we got the right one. Following up on the basic science and the mechanisms of action, we need to translate these discoveries and research into delivering health care, improving people's lives. And part of that is also the public outreach that we've already heard about tonight. So it's threefold, the basic science, mechanism of action driven, translating this research, and sharing it with the public and with health care providers so that the vision of Linus Pauling in promoting optimal health and helpful aging can be shared with everybody. So I'll be better off. I search long and hard on the internet for pictures of the Linus Pauling Institute group. This is the only one I could find, actually, on the internet. So that's one of the things I want to change in the future. I want to have the whole team and pictures to share. I had a great chance to sit down with Donald Reed today, who was the first leader or director of the Linus Pauling Institute. And he shared with me some of his ideas, both past and present, and I'm very grateful for that. Waltz and I are going to have a heart-to-heart talk next. So I'll learn a lot more from him, as much as I possibly can. I want to also acknowledge, in between Waltz and me, has been Fred Stevens. And Fred, I want to thank you for doing a great job as the interim director. Donald and Waltz did a great job getting the institute going. Fred did a great job presenting it to me in as... Well, my mother always taught me when you're staying with somebody to leave the house in a better shape than you found it. And Fred, thank you very much. You've improved things already, so thank you. Since I couldn't find a picture of the whole LPI team that's current, I thought I'd show a picture from the first of the Diet and Optimum Health Conference meetings, which back in 1991 was held up in Portland. This is my one wordy slide. So what I think is key to the future of the LPI is, goes with this idea of synergy, but a collaborative effort. And it's collaborative not just between the faculty. We want to go outside the LPI and bring in involved faculty from the other units of the university. We need a cross interdisciplinary effort. We want to go beyond the walls of OSU and involve other institutions. We want to collaborate with industry, with trade organizations. We want to translate this work and work together with clinical partners, both within Corvallis and beyond Corvallis to Portland and even outside. I see the idea of the LPI becoming a world, well it already is a world-class organization, but I want to do my best to promote its image and its impact by driving a collaborative effort that will make it even, perhaps, better, more influential in promoting human health than it has been thus far. And I'm going to do my best to keep that effort moving in a very positive direction. I think my final slide, I want to talk about the educational mission of the LPI. It's certainly it's a research institute, but all the faculty train graduate students and we train undergraduate students and we have visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows. And each faculty member can train a couple students and send them on their way each year. And in a career you might graduate a hundred. By adding 12 principal investigators, that becomes 1200. By adding junior or adjunct faculty and working in a collaborative effort, we can educate new generations, and I mean multiple generations of experts to promote optimal health and healthful aging. And so that's my closing effort. Collaborative work, synergy, and education for the future. And so thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to lead the LPI. It is a tremendous honor. Fred tried to recruit me many years, maybe the last 12 years. He had me out a few times. Volts Fry had me out to give a seminar to the Linus Pauling Institute. He gave me a nice shirt. When I was here it says Linus Pauling Institute. I started wearing that at all the public events in Chicago, so I'm getting a lot of comments about that now. And people will do a double take and they'll say, oh that says Linus Pauling Institute on it. Aren't you gonna be moving there soon? So thank you very much for that and the opportunities to visit Corvallis and get to know you a little bit over the years. So the decision to come here was just an easy one. My wife is now saying, why didn't we move sooner? So we're both looking forward to joining Oregon State in the new year and thank you very much. And I wanna thank Joanne Facy and the, oh for this donation of this fabulous painting and the Gershaw and Benjamin Foundation for their support, their continuing support of the Linus Pauling Institute and the university. So thank you for this gorgeous donation.