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Mr. Glenn. Not against the Council for Tobacco Research, no, 

 sir. 



Mr. Greenwood. OK. There has been a lot of questioning about 

 the freedom of the researchers who have been funded bv the Insti- 

 tute, freedom to pursue their research as they would he directed 

 scientifically and freedom to publish. Are those assurances contrac- 

 tually guaranteed to the researchers? Do they have contracts with 

 the Institute that say clearly, you are in charge of directing the 

 course of this research and, second, you are entirely free to pub- 

 lish? 



Mr. Glenn. There was no contract per se but in the grant award 

 letter every grantee, there is a paragraph to the effect you are en- 

 couraged to publish your results. We look forward to receiving re- 

 prints of your publications and that message is reiterated to grant- 

 ees repeatedly. 



Mr. Greenwood. Have you made those letters available to the 

 committee yet? 



Mr. Glenn. I can — I am not sure that we have, Mr. Greenwood. 

 I would be happy to provide them. 



Mr. Greenwood. If you would give us a sample of those. 



[The following information was received:] 



Item D in the Appendix is a copy of a form letter, with attachments, that is pro- 

 vided by the Council to successful grant applicants. One of these attachments, ' Im- 

 portant Procedural Information for Grantees", refers specifically to publications by 

 grantees. Item E in the Appendix is the Council's Statement of Policy, which is sent 

 to all grant applicants. The Statement of Policy makes it clear that the Council ex- 

 pects grantees to report their findings in medical and scientific journals, and re- 

 quests that any publications acknowledge the Council's support. 



Our Statement of Policy also says, in very clear terms: "The Council desires to 

 have scientists work with the greatest freedom, without domination of any kind. It 

 will make no attempt to direct the administration of a project once started, to influ- 

 ence its course or to control its results ..." That is the Council's fundamental pol- 

 icy: to give complete scientific freedom to its grantees, and to let the chips fall where 

 they may. 



Mr. Greenwood. The question of the independence of the re- 

 searchers that receive your grants further comes into question in 

 the Wall Street Journal article. I will quote, "for both men defying 

 conventional wisdom has been rewarding; Dr. Seltser says he has 

 received well over $1 million from the Council, Dr. Sterling got $1.1 

 million for his special projects works, the 1977 to 1982 court 

 records show." 



Can you inform this committee how the level of the grants com- 

 pares with normal practice? Were your grants particularly high? 

 Was there any attempt by the Institute to make sure that sci- 

 entists were not so well paid for their research that they felt they 

 would be inclined to feel that they couldn't receive grants as lucra- 

 tive elsewhere? 



Mr. Glenn. Most of our grants are much smaller in nature. The 

 average grant from the Council for Tobacco Research is of the mag- 

 nitude of $75,000 to $80,000 per year for 3 years. 



However, there are projects that are deemed of such importance 

 that we have given prolonged funding to them. The classic example 

 of this is the research done by Dr. Ljnich in the epithelium cancers. 

 We have supported Dr. Lynch for many years because the NIH did 

 not see fit to do so. It is now proving to be a gold mine of basic 

 information about genetic disorders and their relation to disease. 



