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PROCEEDINGS 
The meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m. , December 15, 1977, by 
Donald S. Fredrickson, M.D. , Chairman, presiding. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. We are very 
pleased to welcome you here today to seek your opinions and your advice on 
proposed revisions to the NIH Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research. 
This is a special meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the 
National Institutes of Health, and because we are going to talk about so 
many committees, this shall hereafter be known simply as "the Committee." 
This meeting is focused on a matter of considerable national and even 
international interest. 
For this particular meeting the Committee's membership has been aug- 
mented to assure that its perspectives include sufficient expertise and 
opinion on relevant scientific, environmental, occupational, and many 
other public policy issues. 
Current Committee members who are here today include Dr. James Neel, 
Dr. Jeanne Sinkford, and Dr. Katharine Sturgis. I should like to intro- 
duce them and other members who have specially joined us for this meeting. 
If I may proceed from my left, here is Professor James Gustafson, who is 
Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago; Dr. Katharine 
Sturgis, who is from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; Dr. Roger DeRoos , Director 
of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety of the Boynton Health 
Service at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; and Professor Walter 
Rosenblith, Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Next to 
him is Sir John Kendrew, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory represent- 
ative. We especially welcome you from abroad, Professor Kendrew. Adjacent 
to Professor Kendrew is Ms. Patricia King, Associate Professor of Law at the 
Georgetown University Law Center; Dr. Robert Sinsheimer, Chancellor at the 
University of California in Santa Cruz; Dr. Ann Vidaver, who is from the 
Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Nebraska; Mr. Peter 
Hutt, returning for a second engagement, who is from the Covington & Burling 
Law Offices in Washington, who formerly was General Counsel of the Food 
and Drug Administration. 
Dr. Karim Ahmed is from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr. 
Dennis Helms is Special Assistant to the Attorney General of New Jersey. 
Dr. Sinkford, who is not here at the moment — she is in court — is the Dean 
of Dentistry at Howard. We hope to see her later today. Next is Dr. Harold 
Ginsberg, who is Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Columbia. 
Next, Dr. James Neel, Professor of Genetics at the University of Michigan in 
Ann Arbor. Then Mr. Jon Beaty, who is a student member of an institutional 
biohazards committee from Oregon State University. And next to him is 
Ms. — Where is Dr. Molina? I am sorry to have passed you. Dr. Mario Molina 
is from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California in 
Irvine . 
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