DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA MOLECULE PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 1 
APRIL 27-28, 1978 
The Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee (RAC) was convened 
for its eleventh meeting at 9 a.m. on April 27, 1978, in Conference Room 10, 
Building 31C, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 
Maryland. Dr. Dewitt Stetten, Jr., (Chairman) Deputy Director for Science 
presided. In accordance with Public Law 92-463 the meeting was open to 
the public. 
Committee members present were ; 
Drs. Edward A. Adelberg; Allan M. Campbell; Peter R. Day; Susan K. Gottesman; 
Donald R. Helinski; Richard B. Homick; Elizabeth M. Kutter; Elrmette S. 
Red ford; Wallace P. Rowe; Jane K. Setlow; John Spizizen; LeRoy Walters; 
Milton Zaitlin; and William J. Gartland, Jr., Executive Secretary. 
A Committee roster is attached. (Attachment I) 
The following ad hoc consultants to the Conmittee were present ; 
Dr. Stanley Falkow, University of Washington. 
Dr. Harold Ginsberg, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, on 
sabbatical at Rockefeller University. 
Other National Institutes of Health staff present were : 
Dr. Stanley Barban, NLAID; Dr. EJnmett Barkley, NCI; Dr. Fred Bergmann, 
NICMS; Mr. George Boden, OD; Mrs. Betty Butler, NIO-1S; Dr. Philip Chen, OD; 
Dr. Irving Delappe, NLAID; Mr. TOm Flavin, OD; Dr. Donald Fredrickson, 
Director; Dr. Michael Goldberg, NIGMS; Mrs. Florence Hassell, OD; Mr. Joe 
Hernandez, OD; Dr. John Irwin, DRS; Dr. Daphne Kamely, NIQ-1S; Dr. Ruth 
Kirschstein, NIG-1S; Dr. Malcolm Martin, NIAID; Dr. John Norvell, NIGMS; 
Dr. John Nutter, NIAID; ^ Dr. Joseph Perpich, OD; Dr. Bernard Talbot, OD; 
Dr. Rudolf Wanner, DRS. 
1 
The RAC is advisory to the NIH , and its reoorrmendations should 
not be considered as final and accepted. The Office of Reccmbinant 
DNA Activities (ORDA) should be consulted for NIH policy on specific 
issues. 
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