DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 1 
September 21, 1987 
The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) was convened for its 
thirty-seventh meeting at 9:00 a.m. on September 21, 1987, in Building 
31C, Conference Room 6, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville 
Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. Mr. Robert Mitchell (Chair), Attorney 
at Law in California, presided. In accordance with Public Law 92-463, 
the meeting was open to the public. The following were present for all 
or part of the meeting: 
Committee members: 
Donald C. earner 
Don Bert Clewell 
Mitchell L. Cohen 
Bernard D. Davis 
Charles J. Epstein 
Robert P. Erickson 
Susan K. Gottesman 
Irving S. Johnson 
Wolfgang K. Joklik 
Edward L. Korwek 
Robert E. Mitchell 
Gerald L. Musgrave 
Paul E. Neiman 
Thomas P. Pirone 
David Pramer 
Fred Rapp 
Jeffrey W. Roberts 
Anne K. Vidaver 
LeRoy Walters 
Anne R. Witherby 
William J. Gartland, Jr. 
(Executive Secretary) 
A committee roster is attached (Attachment). 
Ad hoc consultants : 
Nina V. Fedoroff , Carnegie Institution of Washington 
Stephen H. Hughes, Frederick Cancer Research Facility 
Gerard J. McGarrity, Coriell Institute for Medical Research 
John Richardson, Emory University 
Liaison representative : 
Daniel P. Jones, National Endowment for the Humanities 
^The RAC is advisory to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , and 
its recommendations should not be considered as final or accepted. The 
Office of Recombinant DNA Activities should be consulted for NIH policy 
on specific issues. 
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