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Hon. Henry A. Waxnan -5— September 27, 1994 



has not asserted any privilege with respect to the results 

 of, or the findings from, any such scientific research. 



III. 



Together with this letter, I an subnitting on 

 behalf of the Council an Appendix and four boxes of docu- 

 ments. I explain below the contents of the Appendix, of the 

 four boxes of documents, and of the information and docu- 

 ments that we are not now providing, as discussed in Part I. 



Publications by Nobel laureates (requested in 

 May 26. 1994 Transcript ("Tr."> at p. S4> . As I testified 

 on May 26, the Council has funded three investigators who 

 have won Nobel Prizes: Dr. Baruj Benaceraff of Harvard 

 University, Dr. Stanley Cohen of Vanderbilt University and 

 Dr. Harold E. Varmus of the University of California at San 

 Francisco. 



Dr. Benaceraff, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 

 1980, received a Council grant from 1972 through 1974 for 

 investigating "Control of Specific Cellular and Humoral 

 Immune Responses to Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Tissues." 

 Item A in the Appendix includes three publications acknowl- 

 edging the Council's support of Dr. Benaceraff's research. 



Dr. Cohen, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 

 1986, received a Council grant from 1987 through 1993 for 

 investigating "The Role of Lipocortin in the Cellular Re- 

 sponse to EGF." Item B in the Appendix includes six publi- 

 cations acknowledging the Council's support of Dr. Cohen's 

 research. 



Dr. Varmus, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 

 1989, received a Council grant from 1984 through 1986 for 

 investigating "Functional Analysis of Cellular Oncogenes 

 Activated During Tumorigenesis. " Item C in the Appendix is 

 a publication acknowledging the Council's support of 

 Dr. Varmus' research. 



As I explained to the Subcommittee on May 26, the 

 Council-funded research by these Nobel laureates was basic 

 biomedical research aimed at improving our understanding of 

 fundamental disease processes — which is the kind of re- 



