NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER 
School of Medicine 
550 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK, N Y. 10016 
AREA 212 679-3200 
CABLE ADDRESS NYUMEDIC 
Department of Pediatrics 
William J. Gartland, Jr., Ph.D. 
Director 
Office of Recombinant DNA Activities 
National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Department of Health, Education & Welfare 
Public Health Service 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Dr. Garland, 
I am writing to you on behalf of the Society for 
Pediatric Research (SPR) concerning the Proposed Revised 
NIH Guidelines for Recombinant DNA research. Unfortunately, 
the document reached us too late for comments. However 
we would like to register an offical opinion. After careful 
reading of the regulations the SPR feels that these guidelines 
are lucid, concise, and excellently formed. We heartily 
endorse them. 
Would you kindly send me a copy of the final guidelines 
and let me know when they will (or did) appear in the 
Federal Register. 
Thank you. 
December 8,1978 
Sincerely yours 
Anne A. Gershon, M.D. 
Associate Professor 
of Pediatrics 
AAGrMGC 
CC: Dr. JoAnne Brasel, President, SPR 
Dr. John Johnson, Secretary Treasure, SPR 
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