DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 1 
October 3, 1988 
The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) was convened for its 
thirty-ninth meeting at 9:00 a.m. on October 3, 1988, in Building 31C 
Conference Room 6, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike 
Bethesda, Maryland 20892. Dr. Gerard J. McGarrity (Chair), 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 : 
Ronald M. Atlas 
Michael F. Brewer 
Donald C. earner 
James F. Childress 
Don B. Clewell 
Mitchell L. Cohen 
Bernard D. Davis 
Charles J. Epstein 
Robert P. Erickson 
Martin F. Gellert 
Brian F. Mannix 
Robert D. McCreery 
Gerard J. McGarrity 
R. Scott Mclvor 
Richard C. Mulligan 
Robert F. Murray 
Gerald L. Musgrave 
Paul E. Neiman 
David Pramer 
Monica Riley 
Jeffrey W. Roberts 
Anne K. Vidaver 
Jay Moskowitz 
(Executive Secretary) 
A committee roster is attached. 
Ad hoc consultants : 
William N. Kelley, University of Michigan Medical School 
Robert B. Lanman, National Institutes of Health 
Robert McKinney, National Institutes of Health 
LeRoy Walters, Kennedy Institute for Ethics 
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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