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V - BIOLOGY hi DIED I CINE D r . Shields i?arren gave several addresses vihich included a talk on Apfil 1 before the American College of Physicians i n New fore the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriol,ogists i n Boston he spoke on "The Kedico-legal Aspects of Radiation Injury," and on April 16, h i s subject was nAntigen Tracer Studies and Histologic Observations i n Anaphylactic Shock i n the Guinea he spoke before a group of reserve medical officers on '*The F'undamental Biology of Ionizing Radiation"; on April 26 a t the Army,and Navy Club before the 'ITorch Club11 on "Medical Aspects o f Atomic Energy"; on April 28 a t Massachusetts Institute of Technology bef o r e the Massachusetts Public Health Association on ltlJedical Problems of an Atomic Attack.n On April 26 a t the National Naval Xedical Center i n Bethesda, Dr. John 2. Bowers addressed. the Medical Society a t Hagerstown on April 2 1 on llAtomic Fhergy i n Medicine." Ridge on April 11 on t h e "Radioactive Substances and Their Use i n t h e Study of Plant Virus." Dr. Paul Pearson addressed the National Dairy Council i n Detroit on April 18 on "Interrelationships of Nutrients and Fat Actvisory Committee f o r Biolow and hledicine The Advisory Committee for Biology and lledicine held their fifteenth meeting a t the Brookhaven National Laborator- on April 8 and 9 , 1949, with a l l members present. The fellowship progran was thoroughly discussed. the unanimous opinion of the Committke that "Funds allotted to institutions by the Atomic Energy Commission in the field of biology and medicine shall not be used t o supplement stipends received by- holders of full time fellowships awarded for training should be initiated at other AEC facilities in addition t o the Oak Bidge Institute for Nuclear Studies and that considerable latitude should be granted i n the establishment of curricula. The Comit tee voted unanimously that training'programs ' The request of the National Research Council (Division of It was the sense of Nedical Sciences) for an allocation of $$300,000 for the purpose of making a cataract survey was considered. the Committee that t 3 e following recommendation should be forwarded tothe Chairman of the Division of I.Iedica1 Sciences o f the National
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. requested t o continue the established panel as an advisory group and that sufficient funds be allocated for indicated physical examinations on the radiation cataract cases. It i s further recommended that the Radiation Cataract Committee . advise the Division of Biology and Medicine as to indicated research projects f o r coordination with the existing research program of that Division and administration by the Division of Biology and Medicine." f Medical Sciences be ' A contract has been renewed through the New' Vork Operations Office with the Marine Biological Laboratory a t Vioods Hole, Nassachusetts, t o conduct a course for six fellows on radioactive isotopes under the direction of Dr. G. F a i l l a during the Sunnner of 1949 - The AD2 Postdoctoral Fellowship Board i n the Biological Sciences of the National Research Council met on April 2 , 1949, and a t such tine, ten applications were reconmended for fell m - The Division of Biology and ldedicine has advised the National Security Research Board of the volume of research and developnent i n the facilities of the AEC and its contractors which is pertinent to civil defense. looked to for information in the following fields under atomic They further suggested that the AEC could be Blast effects on structures Blast effects on utilities Blast effects on personnel Ionizing m di ation injury Medical care for casualties and refugees Radiological safety - including instrumentation for the detection and measurement of atomic energy Training of personnel. I n cooperation with the Division of Xilitary Application, the Division of Biology and Medicine i s naldng preliminary plans
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:7e.. fora resurvey expedition to Bikini and Eniwetok under the direction Federation of American Societies f o r Ekperimental Biology, Detroit, American Societies f o r Experimental BiologV, a meeting was held by a scientific panel with Dr. James H. Jensen acting as chairman, i n which the biological synthesis of radioactive materials (sometimes called isotope farming) was discussed. Dr. Nathan Woodruff of Oak Ridge presented a sunmary of t h e util ix ation of Carbon 14 i n biological synthesis. Biology and Medicine Information Eeeting An information meeting f o r biology, medicine and health physics w a s held a t Oak Ridge on April 11; 1 2 and 13. f i r s t two days were devoted to radiation microbiology and biochemistry while on the third day a classified Health physics meeting was held. i I n conjunction with the meeting held by the Federation of Discussions on the