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methodology, and the CTR then served merely as the funding agen- 

 cy for such projects. 



However, your first — initial statement is correct. Some 250 peer- 

 reviewed articles were published as a result of the various special 

 projects that were accomplished. 



Mr. Bliley. Some of what people are claiming here today doesn't 

 make sense. If a researcher was being funded by both the Federal 

 Government and a CTR special project grant, how could CTR pre- 

 vent publication? 



Mr. Glenn. We couldn't, Mr. Bliley. You can't prevent a bio- 

 medical investigator from doing anything he wants to do. He cer- 

 tainly will publish at his discretion. We wouldn't presume to tell 

 him not to publish. On the contrary, we have encouraged publica- 

 tion. 



Mr. Bliley. Would you submit a list of publications and presen- 

 tations which are believed to have resulted from CTR special 

 projects for the research? 



Mr. Glenn. Would I submit such a list? 



Mr. Bliley. Obviously, you can't do it today but the record will 

 be open, and I am sure the Chairman will keep it open for that. 



Mr. Glenn. It is available to you, Mr. Bliley. We have submitted 

 our annual reports for the last 30 years, which I am sure that 

 much of it to people who are in different professions and even to 

 me on occasion must look like Greek, but I think if you will ask 

 competent biomedical investigators, authorities in the field to re- 

 view the research reported in these annual reports you will see the 

 very high quality of the research that has been done. 



Mr. Waxman. Will you submit to this committee for the record 

 a list of all the research funded under the special projects? 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir, we will cooperate with you in any way. 



[The following information was received:] 



As I explained in my testimony, Council Special Projects were research projects 

 that the Council's sponsors wished to fund. Tr. at 46. These research projects were 

 funded by the sponsors, and were administered by the Council, separately from the 

 grant-in-aid program. 



We have prepared a list of all Council Special Projects for which the Council has 

 a file. That list includes the following information for each such project (where such 

 information is available from the Council's files or from published sources): (a) the 

 name of the principal investigator or investigators; (b) the institution or institutions 

 with which the principal investigator or investigators were associated; (c) the title 

 or subject matter of the Council Special Project; (d) the dates of funding of the 

 Council Special Proiect; (e) the total amount of funding provided by the Council; and 

 (f) a list of the publications that apparently resulted, or may have resulted, from 

 the Council Special Project. Some of the publications identified on the list appear 

 in the Council s Special Projects files; others have been collected from other sources. 

 In a number of instances, it is not clear whether a particular publication resulted 

 from Council Special Project funding. 



My statement at the May 26 hearing that 250 peer-reviewed articles are believed 

 to have resulted from Council Special Projects was based on my information about 

 the number of publications that either were in the Council's files or have been col- 

 lected from other sources. Several clarifications should be made to that statement. 

 First, our list sets forth over 400 articles or presentations that resulted or may have 

 resulted from Council Special Projects; so far, I understand, conies of about 250 of 

 these articles or presentations have been obtained, and that unaerstanding was the 

 source of my statement at the hearing. Second, most but not all of these 250 articles 

 or presentations were peer-reviewed. Third, abstracts relating to Council Special 

 Projects publications were not included in the Council's Annual Reports. 



We expect to provide this list to you promptly after we have reached an under- 

 standing with the subcommittee staff with respect to procedures for the subcommit- 



