News And Comment 
The New RAC 
The number of people on the NIH Recombinant 
DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) has been 
increased to twenty-five. The following is a list of 
the committee members and the date of expiration 
of their term of appointment (in parenthesis): 
Chairman 
Setlow, Jane K, Ph.D. (80) 
Biologist, Brookhaven National Laboratory 
Upton, Long Island, New York 11973 
Ahmed, Abdul Karim, Ph.D. (82) 
Senior Staff Scientist 
National Resources Defense Council 
New York, New York 10017 
Baltimore, David, Ph.D. (82) 
Professor of Biology 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 
Broadbent, Francis, Ph.D. (80) 
Professor of Soil Microbiology 
Department of Land, Air 
and Water Resources 
University of California 
Davis, California 9561 6 
Campbell, Allan M., Ph.D. (81) 
Professor, Department of Biology 
Stanford University 
Stanford, California 94305 
Cason, Zelma . (81) 
Supervisor of Cytopathology 
Laboratory 
University of Mississippi Medical 
Center 
Jackson, Mississippi 39216 
Day, Peter, Ph.D. (80) 
Chief, Division of Genetics 
Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station 
New Haven. Connecticut 06504 
Goldstein, Richard, Ph.D. (82) 
Assistant Professor of Microbiology 
and Molecular Genetics 
Harvard Medical School 
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 
Gottesman, Susan, Ph.D. (81) 
Senior Investigator 
Laboratory of Molecular Biology 
National Cancer Institute 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Hornick, Richard A., Ph.D. (81) 
Chairman, Department of Medicine 
University of Rochester 
School of Medicine 
Rochester, New York 14642 
King. Patricia, J.D. (82) 
Professor of Law 
Georgetown University Law Center 
Washington, D.C. 20001 
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