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A t ten dan ce Advisar? Co,nrr,ittee f o r Biology and Medicine The twenty-nhth meeting of t h e Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine was held a t Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 27, 28 and 29, 1951. The following were i n attendance: Staff of AEC and k.Shields Warren Las Vegas Tests The Committee reviewed t h e precautions in relation to the current series of Las Vegas tests and witnessed two of the tests. The Committee was favorably impressed by the efficiency of operation of the various units involved and the precautions taken for the safety of operating personnel observers and the general population, Fellowships The ComTittee reviewed the current status of fellowships in light of the plans of the National Science Foundation and supported the plans of the Division of Biology and Medicine t o continue the
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special felloxships i n industrial medicirie and i n health physics, and such renewals in the fields of biology and medicine as constitute a moral obligation. The Committee was in accord wit k the decision t o give no new fellowships, predoctoral or postdoctoral in the field of biology and msdicine, believing that the program of t h e IJational Science Foundation would serv6 t o meet the need existing here. The Committee recommends that in the event the National. Science Foundation proves unable t o carry on an adequate fellowship p - ogrm thE; Corrmission be prepared to reesta5lish a program i n biology and medicine. There was discussion of overhead, particularly overhead on university ressarch contracts and the current plan of the NSF t o pay up t o 15% was conThe matter of tcjrminoloa f o r lump-sum contracts was considered and t h e term ttresearch agreement" was felt to be more useful and dGscriptive than The Committte reviewed t h c cancer program of the Commission in light of the memoranda of Comniissioners Glcnnan and Murray, and recalled that the prescnt program was evolved by the Division o f Biology and Medicine on the basis of recomcndations of t h e Medical
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Board of Review and of t h c Conmittcc. The Committee FY 19b8) made availablc tothe Comiission $s,OOO,OOO for cancer rcscarch, this amount having been reduced by efforts of the Commission from a suggested $25,000,000, a?d that cach succeeding annual budget submitted t o Congress contained specific items for cancer research. Moreover, canccr is a specific industrial hazard ofthe atomic energy business. The Committee recommends that the present program in canccr research be vigorously pursued and continued as a humanitarian duty tothr nation. further rocomLents continucd cxploration of the value of the Commission 1 s special facilities for radiation as well as of the value of fission able materials and their products in cancer research, diagnosis and D r . Bugher reported on the progress made in reorganization of the Atomic Bomb Casualty com.ission. The Committcle noted with satisfaction the much improved organizationzl pattern and the reduccd costs. The next meeting of the Committee i s scheduled t o be held a t the University of California, Berkeley,