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Research Projects Approved During December 1949 Nutritional. Deficiencies on the Synthesis of Phospholipids and of Liver Physiology and Pathology Involving t h e Use of Bromsul phthalein Containing 53511 - $6,383 Program" - $8,200 (Transfer t o AEC of ONR contract and renewal for active Iodine in Developing Quantitative Assay Method for Thyroand Hemopoietic Physiology of Rodentslt - $1,287 - (Supplement t o previously approved contract) Genetic Zffects of Radiation An ad hoc committee consisting of Drs. George TiCJ.Beadle, been asked by the.Director of 'the Division of Eiiology and Kedi'cine to evaluate existing infomation on the genetic effects of radia - tion and to interpret the data in terms of human populations. Such information will provide a basis for properly informing the public on this subject. Civil Defense Activities Training Program. The National Security Resources Board formally indicated its approval on December 22, 1949, of the program t o be conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission, i n conjunction with the National Security Resources Board, for training,of radiological monitoring instructors snd physician instructors in atomic warfare aspects of civil 2efense. .tives of the seven participating institutions in the physician training program was held i n 'Jashington on December 19. was reached on the basic features of the course, and detailed
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syllabi will be submitted by the various institutions at an early Reserve University School of Kedicine, Argonne National Laboratory, University of California, LOAo,University of Alabama School of Medicine, Johns Eopkins University School of Medicine and 'University of Utah School of Kiedicine are cooperating i n this program. planned that the first three institutions will initiate their courses i n March, the others,later in the spring. will be of bweek ' s duration. These courses would provide , on a national level, some 200 physicians qualified to aid in planning and teaching medical aspects of civilian defense atthe state The Atomic Energy Project, University of Rochester, l?estern A meeting of the participants in the radiological monitoring instructors training program i s scheduled for January 6, 1950, i n for the5or &week courses tobe given at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak PLdge, and University of California, L.A., for At this time final arrangements will be considered Radiation monitoring teams. I n response tothe comments received from the Operations Offices on the teletype dispatched by Mre J. A. Derry on December 6, 1949, outlining the basic considerat ions in the establishment and operation of these teams, an explanatory memorandum has been prepared, covering t h e questions Operations Offices on the revised plan, a directive will be pre-' pared for formal issuance by the General Uanager. After allowing an opportunity for further comments by the Korking jointly with the Division of Research plans have been developed for a pre doctoral fellowship program inthe biological and physical sciences. academic year will be on a regional basis comprised of,the eastern,nsouthern, midwest, and probably a western region. It i s anticipated that the program will be operated by non-AEC organizations such as Associated Universities, Inc., serving the respective each of t h e four regions. The program for the 1950-51 The details of the program are now being worked out for Dr. James 3,Sterner, AEC Industrial Kedical Consultant; Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, on December 20 and 21, 19k9, relative to the research progran and industrial and medical hazards. Dr.Uax R. Zelle, formerly Professor of Bacteriology a t Cornel1 University, has been appointed Geneticist in the Biology
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Branch of the Division o f Biology and Medicine. several years Dr, Zellels research has been concerned primarily with genetic studies with micro-organisms with emphasis upon the effects of ultraviolet irradiation. of the National Institute of Health, the Oak Ridge- National Laboratory, where he was a visiting investigator the past summer, and Purdue University. He has been on the staff