Rockefeller Brothers Fund 
30 Rockefeller Plaza 
New York. New York 10020 
December 3, 1976 
Dear Dr. Fredrickson: 
I am responding to your letter of November 17, 1976 to Mr. Robert C. 
Bates, Vice President of the Fund, with special appreciation for the effort to 
extend the NTH guidelines on DNA research to the public and private sectors. 
As you can see, we are not directly Involved In the purposes of your survey, 
since we are not a research organization and otherwise would have no direct 
application of the NTH guidelines. 
We are, however, as a private grant-making foundation with special 
Interest In environmental Issues and public-interest science, especially con- 
cerned with the public policy process and the Issues surrounding the DNA 
research. We have presently made two grants to open up and stimulate public 
debate on these Issues. The first Is to the Union of Concerned Scientists In 
Cambridge, Massachusetts to help them recruit a respected and neutral senior 
biochemist who can do a technically competent and yet easily understood an- 
alysis of the Issues surrounding the DNA research. We have also made a grant 
to the Environmental Defense Fund for a similar analysis under their Toxic 
Substances Division. 
We appreciate your response to the public concern over these issues, 
and we would enter a strong plea and support of even more broad public debate 
and Involvement In all future considerations of these Issues. 
If your office will be sending out further information In this area, 
we would appreciate being added to your mailing list. 
Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson 
Director 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda , Maryland 20014 
Sincerely 
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