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Research Projects Approved During October 19&9 University of Oregon Medical School- Dr. Prank B. Queen -t’Evaluation of Body Content of Radium mosure* - $845. Indivlduals Yith No gam Army Macal Center, Washington, 3. C. - Ujor 2. y. logical Effects of Irradiation in Patients Receiving Large &Des Studies and Irradiation in Dental Yetabollgunn - a,.%. Manorial Hospital, New YoFk City - Dr. Helen Toodward and Amino Acids i n Flants and Animals” - $12,000. Fish and lffildllfe Service, U. 3. Department of Interior -3r. Walter A. Chipman - “A Survey of the Accumulation of RadioDr. William F. Bale, Professor of Radiation Biology, University of Rochester Hedical School, and formerly ac maul.bt t o the Division of Biology and &&cine, has been appointed -0biologirt in the Mvisim of Biology and Medicine. He w i l l be reapon8ible for the biological and health aspects of the waste die pos al program. This work will be carried out through closecoobrati-& dth t h e Division of Reactor Developeent. Advisory Cdt tee for BLology and Hedidne A special meeting of the Advi80z-y Camittee for Biology pnd Medicine w a s held on October 20, 19b9, for the purpose of appraising the current and future program of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission as well as the program for Civil Defense Planning. The Canmittee is concerned with the marked increase in cost of Cora st mc tion at Hiroshima, Kure, and Nagasaki and the proposed-
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expansion of the over-all program other than had been given a?proval by the Atdc Energy Canmission. the Committee that it was desirable t o continue in abeyance constivction a t Kure pending a reply fran the Chairman of the National Research Council on the fol ld ng recanmendation: It was the sense of The Advisory Camittee f o r Biology and Medicine urgently recornends that the National Research Council be requested t o appraise the present status of the Atomic Wmb Casualty Commission program, appraise the prospective value of future work, t o recammend such modifications as may be desirable in view of changed conditions since the start of the program, and to recmmend a time schedule for the progran in order that the Atomic Energy Cwnissim may discharge i t s respansibillties in this area. Problems relating to Civil Defense Phnnhg were preeented by the Deputy Director. A mbccauuittee consisting of Dr. J. T. by the Vice Chairman and asked t o prepqe a atatanent cmcerning the biological, medical, and health physic8 problems which appr+ priately are the Commission's responsibility In Civil Defense Planning for study by the Committee a t the meeting t o be held at Oak Edge on November 12, 19b9. During t h e past month an extensive study has beem made of Capmission policy with respect t o the clearance of invsstigators QT suborcbate personnel employed on aaclassified research coninterested Mvisions that there a r e nmy retwcrrch projects in fields related t o the atomlc energy progrcna in whlch the probability of developing restricted data i s so remote as t o be ne@- gible. In suchlcases it is proposed to eliminate the present requirement for the clearance of a principal investigator since access to restricted data is not contemplated. There i s substantial agrement on the part of the Discussions have been held w i t h the Mvi8ions of Research and Reactor Developaent relative to tk estabUshment of a Canmission policy an overhead t o be allowed on lu,q+sum basic necesalty and the desirability of granting a fixed overhead rate of approximately 10 percent of the Camsission~scantributim t o There 18 substantiel agrtanent ~ l lto both the Dr. James H. Sterner, Consultant in Industrial Medicine, and Dr. George A . Hardie, Medical Branch, spent October 10 at Sandia Base and October U - l L at Los Alaraos t o get first-hand
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knowledge of their industrial medical problems. visiting the other AEC installations in the future. A meeting on Industrial &&cine was held a t the Donner Laboratory of t h e University of CaUfornia on October 20. attended by representatives from Los Alamos, Argcane National Laboratory, Brookhaven Xational ?&oratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the lkdical Branch of the Washington Office. The principal iten discussed was the need for greater unifornrity i n the medical records among AEC installations. Ch October 21 and 22 there waa a quarterly meeting of Laboratory Directors and Division Heads of the A t d c bergy Commission Biology and Medicine laboratories. An excellent scientific program consisting of presentations of their current activities was put on each morning by the various research groups in t h i s field supported by the Ltd c Energy Conmission at Berkblep and at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. The Director of t h e Divi8im of Biology and Medicine presided at the meting and led a very useful discus dar Of the present &ate of o w knowledge ofmeans t o combat acute radiation effect^. Develop m e n t s at the University of Rochester on tbe use of aureamycin in the experimcntal radiation-syndrome and the observations by the Univers4t.y of California a t Los h ge les group on the favorable effeci 1 of reduced oxygen tension at the time of ir radi a tian were high lights of this part of the program. A meeting was held on October 12 in Chicago which waa the Washkrgkm Offlce and by representatives from t h e Neu York, Cbicago, Loa Alamos, W o r d , ami Oak Ridge Operatiam OfficeS. The meeting was coslce~edwith the me t o be made of the stock af monitoring instrawllts which the Commission is securing. Each of the Operatia3 Offices had been asked t o make tm tat ive plan8 for the w e of tbe equipnent. The plans, which were quite diverse, mure discussed in detail. In the ll&t of the discuss im it in expected that each Operations Office-will revise its plan. I Applied Biophysics Branch Fol ld nga duit by members of theM d don to Sdaho, the of a W t h ph;ysics group at Arco. The staff ie completing plaw - of a proposal for a baae-llne radiatian survey that i8 t o be made - before operatias start. Members of the Division met w i t h representatives of AFSWP regarding a course in applied radiation protection t h a t would be offered t o six medical officers of the National Military
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Establishment that are now atthe Regional training centers. proposed course i n applied work would be given by Gak huge at the completion of their present stpdies. A supplement to the Journal of Clinical Investigation entitled "The Use of Radioactive and Stable Isotopes in Clinical Investigation" will be distributed during the month of Kovember.