DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION , AND WELFARE 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY OOMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 
MAY 21-23, 1979 
The Recombinant ENA Advisory Committee (RAC) was convened for its fifteenth 
meeting at 9 a.m. on May 21, 1979, in the Terrace Room, Linden Hill Hotel, 
5400 Pocks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Jane K. Setlow, (Chairman) 
Biologist, Brookhaven National Laboratory presided. In accordance with 
Public Law 92-463 the meeting was open to the public. 
Committee members present were : 
Dr. Abdul K. Ahmed; Dr. David Baltimore; Dr. Francis E. Broadbent; 
Dr. Allan M. Campbell; Mrs. Zelma Cason; Dr. Peter R. Day; Dr. Richard 
Goldstein; Dr. Susan K. Gottesman; Dr. Richard B. Homick; Ms. Patricia A. 
King; Dr. Sheldon Krimsky: Dr. Elizabeth M. Kutter; Dr. Richard P. Novick; 
Dr. David K. Parkinson; Dr. Ramon Pinon; Dr. Samuel D. Proctor; Dr. Emmette S. 
Redford; Dr. Wallace P. Rowe; Dr. John Spizizen; Mr. Ray H. Thornton; 
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 consultants to the Committee were present ; 
Dr. Mary-Dell Chilton, University of Washington 
Dr. Julian Davies, University of Wisconsin 
The following non-voting members and liaison representatives were present : 
Dr. George EUda, Department of Energy; Dr. Louis C. LaMotte, Center for 
Disease Control; Dr. Herman Lewis, National Science Foundation; Dr. Sue 
Tolin, Department of Agriculture; and Dr. William J. Walsh, Department 
of State. 
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