JERRY LEWIS 
Board of Directors 
National Chairman 
MRS. GERALD R. FORD 
CARL F. AXELROD 
LOUIS R. BENZAK 
OOROTHY COLLINS 
MICHAEL E. DeBAKEY, M.D. 
THOMAS R. DONAHUE 
MICHAEL T. GAFFNEY 
JOHN J. GARDINER 
ALVIN HAMPEL 
JACK HARRIS 
W. HOWARD McCLENNAN 
FREDERICK O’NEAL 
S. MOUCHLY SMALL, M.D. 
HENRY M. WATTS, JR. 
SYLVESTER L. WEAVER, JR. 
Mrs. JOHN C. WEST 
Honorary Chairman 
SYLVESTER L. WEAVER, JR. 
President 
HENRY M. WATTS, JR. 
Chairman, Executive Committee 
S. MOUCHLY SMALL, M.D. 
Chairman, 
Scientific Advisory Committee 
LEON I. CHARASH, M.D. 
Chairman, 
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION, INC 
Medical Advisory Committee 
ROBERT ROSS 
Active Member, National Health Council 
Vice-President and 
Executive Director 
December 8, 1976 
Donald S. Fredrickson, M.D., Director 
National Institutes of Health 
Public Health Service 
Department of Health, Education and Welfare 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Dr. Fredrickson: 
Thank you for your letter of November 26 to Henry M. Watts, Jr., Chairman 
of MDA's Executive Committee. Mr. Watts has asked that I reply on his 
behalf. 
We are grateful to receive from you a copy of the minutes of the November 4 
meeting of the Interagency Committee on Recombinant DNA Research. In answer 
to your inquiry about this Association's role in support or conduct of re- 
search in that area, we have not yet funded such investigations. Although 
it seems unlikely that we will be receiving applications for support of 
this kind of work in the immediate future, the NIH guidelines will be of 
interest to us nevertheless. I hope you will keep us informed of new ad- 
visory or regulatory developments pertaining to this area of research. 
I trust you won't mind my sharing your present and future communications 
with members of our Scientific and Medical Advisory Committees, and I as- 
sure you that any grant applications we may receive that deal with re- 
combinant DNA will be reviewed for comformity to guidelines and recommenda- 
tions of NIH and other appropriate sources, including the institutions where 
prospective grantees are working. 
Sincerely, 
M. L. Moss, Ph.D. 
Director of Research 
Development 
MLM: jsw 
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