DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
PURLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
NATIONAL institutes of health 
RECOMBINANT DNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
MINUTES OF MEETING 1 
JUNE 1, 1984 
The Recombinant DNA Advisory Ccmmittee (RAC) was convened for its thirtieth 
meeting at 9:00 a.m. on June 1, 1984, in Building 31, Conference Roan 6, 
National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20205. 
Mr. Robert Mitchell (Chair), Attorney at Law in California, presided. In 
accordance with Public Law 92-463, the meeting was open to the public fron 
9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meeting was closed to the public frcm 3:30 p.m. 
to 5:25 p.m. for review of proposals involving proprietary information. The 
following were present for all or part of the meeting: 
Corrmittee members: 
Barbara Bowman 
Royston Clowes 
L. Albert Daloz 
Nina Fedor off 
David Friedman 
Susan Gottesman 
John Harvin 
King Holmes 
Wolfgang Joklik 
Arthur Lardy 
Myron Levine 
Gerard McGarrity 
John McGonigle 
Robert McKinney 
Robert Mitchell 
Thomas Pirone 
Fred Rapp 
Mark Saginor 
John Scandal ios 
Frances Sharpies 
LeRoy Walters 
Pieter Wensink 
Anne Witherby 
William J. Gartland, Jr. 
(Executive Secretary) 
A ccrrmittee roster is attached (Attachment I ) . 
Ad hoc consultants: 
George Lacy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University 
David Pimentel, . Cornell University 
Anne vidaver. University of Nebraska 
1 The RAC is advisory to the NIH, and its recommendations should not be considered 
as final or accepted. NIH action on two of these recommendations was published 
in the Federal Register on September 13, 1984 (49 FR 36052). The Office of 
Recombinant ENA Activities should be consulted for NIH policy on specific issues. 
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