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the NRC Penicillin Panel and the transfer of its responsibilities to the NIH Syphilis Study Section “with 
the same membership” plus two clinicians and a biostatician. 
The Syphilis Study Section convened to “hear papers and progress reports of the syphilis and penicillin 
investigations.” See Ernest Allen to R.E. Dyer. (1946, March 8). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
NARA-II_0000129. No specific protocols or applications considered by the group, including those for the 
Guatemala research, could be located. 
There is no evidence that Dr. Mahoney, an architect and supervisor of the Guatemala work, recused 
himself from reviewing the project. 
The membership list comes from a December 1946 publication of then NTH Research Grants Division 
Lead, Dr. C. J. Van Slyke. See Van Slyke, C. J., op cit., p. 567. An earlier publication authored by the OSRD 
CMR and the PHS in May 1946 suggests a slightly different membership, composed of: Dr. J.W. Ferree 
(Navy), Dr. John F. Mahoney (Subcommittee on Venereal Diseases), Dr. Joseph E. Moore (Subcommittee 
on Venereal Diseases), Dr. Walter Schwartz (Navy), Dr. Harry C. Solomon (Harvard University), Dr. T.H. 
Sternberg (Army), Dr. John H. Stokes (University of Pennsylvania), and Dr. W.B. Wood, Jr. (Committee on 
Chemotherapeutics and Other Agents). See Committee on Medical Research and Public Health Service, op 
cit., p. 265. 
This description of the study is from a final letter from Chairman Moore to Dr. C. J. Van Slyke, with a 
copy to the entire Study Section, during deliberation of the reauthorization of the original grant. Joseph E. 
Moore to C.J. Van Slyke. (1947, May 26). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-H_0000036. 
An abstract for this work was included in a group of “all new projects” circulated to members of the 
NAHC for review prior to its March meeting, but the abstracts have not been located. See Ernest Allen to 
R.E. Dyer. (1946, March 8). Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-II_0000129. See Van Slyke, 
C. J., op cit., pp. 556, 564. See also Fox, D.M., op cit., p. 450. 
Other members who were present at the NAHC meeting March 8-9, 1946 were: Gordon M. Fair (Harvard 
University), A. Baird Hastings (Harvard University), Carl S. Marvel (University of Illinois), Kenneth F. 
Maxcy (Johns Hopkins University), Karl F. Meyer (University of California, San Francisco), Harry S. 
Mustard (Columbia University), William C. Rose (University of Illinois), Henry F. Vaughan (University 
of Michigan), Harry W. Schoening (U.S. Department of Agriculture), Capt. O.L. Burton (U.S. Navy), 
R.E. Dyer (NIH Director), Col. Karl R. Lundeberg (U.S. Army). Absent members were Edwin B. Fred 
(University of Wisconsin), Lowell J. Reed (Johns Hopkins University), and John H. Musser (Tulane 
University). National Advisory Health Council Meeting, U.S. Public Health Service. (1946, March 8 and 
9). PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-II 0000544; Van Slyke, C.J., op cit., pp. 559-567. 
Minutes of the National Advisory Health Council Meeting. (1946, March 8-9). PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
NARA-II_0000546. Meeting minutes show that this grant award was unusual in other ways. NAHC 
considered 30 grant applications during its two-day meeting, and meeting minutes list each proposal with 
the name of an institution as a grantee and the name of an individual as the principal investigator. The 
only exception is RG-65, which simply names “Guatemala” as the grantee and “Pan American Union” 
as the investigator. In addition, the amount recommended for RG-65 was conspicuously large, over five 
times greater than any other grant approved during the meeting. Just over a year later, on May 14-15, 1947, 
Dr. Parran presided over another NAHC meeting that recommended a continuing grant, RG-65(C), in 
the amount of $105,800, the largest amount for any grant recommended at the meeting. Members present 
at the May 14-15 meeting were George Baehr, Gordon Fair, A. Baird Hastings, Carl S. Marvel, Karl F. 
Meyer, John H. Musser, Harry S. Mustard, Henry F. Vaughan, Cpt. O.L. Burton, Col. Karl R. Lundeberg, 
Harry W. Schoening, and R.E. Dyer. Also present were non-members Deputy Surgeon General James A. 
Crabtree, C.J. Van Slyke, Ernest Allen, John D. Porterfield, David E. Price, and Mary Switzer (Assistant 
to the Administrator, Federal Security Agency). PCSBI HSPI Archives, NARA-II_0000473-74; Medical 
Research Grants. (1947, April 26). JAMA 17(133): 1289 (which reported, “of the 193 grants that supplement 
existing funds of universities and other research institutions, the largest, $105,800 was recommended for a 
study of syphilis by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau”). 
In addition, PHS sent down materials and supplies. C.H. Morrison to John Cutler. (1946, November 4). 
Correspondence. PCSBI HSPI Archives, CTLR 0001262. The precise amount awarded and paid out 
for RG-65, 65(c) is unclear. Public Health Reports Supplement No. 205, revised shows that the total 
amount actually awarded for Grant 65, 65(c) as of August 31, 1948 was $171,950 ($44, 300 less than 
the total amount recommended by the NAHC). U.S. Public Health Service. (1948), Research Grants 
Awarded by PHS, Public Health Reports, Supplement No. 205, revised, p. 38. PCSBI HSPI Archives, 
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