DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 
FEBRUARY 15-16, 1979 
The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) was convened for its 
fourteenth meeting at 9 a.m. on February 15, 1979, in Conference Rocm 6, 
Building 31, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 
Maryland. Dr. Jane K. Set lew, (Chairman) Biologist, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory presided. In accordance with Public Law 92-463 the meeting 
was open to the public. 
Carmittee members present were : 
Dr. Abdul K. Ahemd; Dr. David Baltimore; Dr. Francis E. Broadbent; 
Dr. Allan M. Campbell; Mrs. Zelma Cason; Dr. Peter R. Day; Dr. Susan 
Gottesman; Ms. Patricia A. King; Dr. Sheldon Krimsky; Dr. Elizabeth M. 
Kutter; Dr. Richard P. Novick; Dr. David K. Parkinson; Dr. Ramon Pinon; 
Dr. Emmette S. Red ford ; Dr. Wallace P. Rcwe; Dr. John Spizizen; Mr. Ray 
H. THomton; Dr. LeRoy Walters; Dr. Luther S. Williams; Dr. Frank E. 
Young; Dr. Milton Zaitlin; and Dr. William J. Gartland, Jr., Executive 
Secretary. 
A Committee roster is attached. (Attachment I) 
THe following ad hoc consultant to the Committee was present ; 
Dr. Norton Zinder, Rockefeller University 
The following non-voting members and liaison representatives were present ; 
Dr. George S. Gordon, Department of Commerce; Dr. Louis C. LaMotte, 
Center for Disease Control; Dr. Herman Lewis, National Science Foundation; 
Dr. Dante Picciano, Department of Labor; Dr. Mariano B. Pimentel, Department 
of Interior; Dr. Jane S. Schultz, Veterans Administration; Dr. Sue Tolin, 
Department of Agriculture; and Dr. William J. Walsh, Department of State. 
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