DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OP HEALTH 
RECCMBINANT DNA ADVISORY CCMMITTEE 
WORKING GROUP ON HUMAN GENE THERAPY 
MINUTES OP MEETING 1 
DECEMBER 16, 1985 
The Workinq Group on Human Gene Therapy of the Recanbinant ENA Advisory Committee 
was convened at 9:00 a.m. on December 16, 1985, at the National Institutes of 
Health, Buildinq 31, Conference Rocm 6, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 
20R92. Dr. LeRoy Walters was Chair. The following were present for all or part 
of the meeting: 
Working Group members : 
W. French Anderson 
Judith Areen 
Alexander Capron 
James Childress 
Samuel Gorovitz 
Susan Gottesman 
Clifford Grobstein 
Maurice Mahoney 
A workinq qroup roster is attached (Attachment I). 
Liaison representatives : 
Bonnie Lee, Food and Druq Administration 
Henry Miller, Food and Druq Administration 
Ad hoc consultants : 
Samuel Ackerman, Food and Drug Administration 
George Scanqos, Johns Hopkins University 
Other National Institutes of Health staff : 
Stanley Barban, NIAID 
Prabhakara Choudary, NINCHS 
Rachel Levinson, OD 
Elizabeth Milewski, NIAID 
Others : 
Philip Chao, Food and Drug Administration 
Jeff Christy, Blue Sheet 
Robert Cook-Deegan, Office of Technology Assessment 
1 The workinq qroup is advisory to the RAC, and its recommendations should not 
be considered as final or accepted. 
Arno Motulsky 
Robert Rich 
Harold Varmus 
LeRoy Walters 
Anne Witherby 
William Gartland 
(Executive Secretary) 
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