COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL RESEARCH II5 



pose was to collect and codify the mass of chemical, pharmacological and 

 clinical data which was to be developed in the succeeding years and to make 

 this information available to investigators in this country and the British Em- 

 pire within the limitations of military security and the commitments which 

 had to be made to commercial firms. Initially, the studies of malaria were 

 co-ordinated by a series of "conferences on malaria research" called by the 

 Subcommittee on Tropical Medicine of the NRC. In January 1943, a more 

 formal integration was accomplished by appointment of a Subcommittee 

 on Co-ordination of Malarial Studies within the National Research Council. 

 Dr. Frederick M. Hanes was Chairman of this subcommittee which at first 

 had three subsidiary panels dealing with the biochemistry, clinical testing, 

 and pharmacology and antimalarials under the chairmanship, respectively, < 

 of Drs. W. M. Clark, J. A. Shannon, and E. K. Marshall, Jr. Later, a fourth 

 panel, concerned with the synthesis of antimalarials, was instituted; Dr. 

 Clark was its first Chairman, being succeeded by Dr. C. S. Marvel. As the 

 work was pushed with greater vigor and assumed greater importance, as 

 the magnitude of the malaria problem was more fully realized, and as the 

 need for closer co-operation with the malarial studies of the Services became 

 apparent, the Chairman of the NRC Division of Medical Sciences suggested 

 that an independent Board for the Co-ordination of Malarial Studies be 

 estabhshed. Such a board was appointed and held its first meeting in Novem- 

 ber 1943. It received its financial support from OSRD funds. As finally 

 constituted under the chairmanship of Dr. R. P. Loeb, it included seven 

 representatives of the three Surgeons General, the chairmen of the four NRC 

 antimalarial panels. Dr. A. R. Dochez, member of CMR, and Dr. G. A. 

 Garden, Jr., Chief of the CMR Division of Malaria. 



The Board supervised and directed the malaria program with distin- 

 guished success and provided a model of effective co-operation between 

 civilian and military groups. The representatives of Army, Navy, and Public 

 Health Service were not general Liaison Officers present to ask or receive 

 advice from a committee, but were voting members of the Board. They 

 were investigators and specialists in malaria in their own right, who were in 

 a position within their Services to effectuate measures which the Board 

 might recommend. They brought to the attention of the civilian members 

 exigent military problems with which the latter were unfamiliar and 

 arranged for prompt and adequate field trials of procedures developed in 

 the course of civilian investigation. 



Liaison with Allied Governments 



At the meeting on November 19, 1941, Dr. Kenneth B. Turner of 

 New York was selected to head the medical section of the OSRD London 

 Mission. After familiarizing himself with the plans and procedures of the 

 NRC committees on military medicine and visiting a number of OSRD 



