Monthly Status and Progress Reports for December 1949 (Partial)

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Nutritional Deficiencies on the Synthesis of Phospholipids and Nucleoproteins i n the Ratp - 95,600 of Uver physiology and Pathology Involving the Use of BrmCooper - f'Radioisotope Laboratory and Radiobiology Training Programn - $8,200 (Transfer t o AEC of ONR contract and renewal for active Iodine i n Developing Quantitative Assay Eethod for Thyrotropic Homonew - $5,000 (Duration: Extended 1 year February 1, and Hemopoietic Physiology of Radentsn - $1,287 - (Supplement t o previously approved contract) An ad h s committee consisting of Drs. George W. Beadle, been asked by t h e Director of the Division of Biology and Medicine t o evaluate existing infoxmation on the genetic effects of radiation and to in tem ret the data in terms of human populations. ISuch information will provide a basis for properly informing the public on this subject. Training Program. The National Security Resources Board Lformally indicated i t s approval on December 22, 19h9, of tl gram t o be conducted by the At dc Energy Camaission, in ccmjunction with the National Security Resources Board, for training of radiological monitoring instructors and physician instructors in atomic warfare aspects of civil defense. A meeting of representatives of the seven participating institutions in the physician i training program was held i n Yashington on Decenber 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 ear4 Reserve University School of kedicine, Argonne National Laboratory, University of California, L.A., University of Alabama School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Utah School of Kedicine are cooperating in this program. planned that the first three institutions will initiate their courses i n March, the others, later in the spring. will be of Irweekts duration. These courses would provide, on a national level, some 200 physicians quaUfied toaid in planning and teaching medical aspects of civilian defense at the state The A t d c Energy Project, University of Rochester, Western A meeting of the participants h the radiological monitoring instructors training program i s scheduled for January 6, 1950, in for the5 or &week courses t o be given at Brookhaven National Laboratory, O a k Bidge, and University of CalFfornia, L.A., far A t this time final arrangements lrill be considered Radiation monitoring teams. I n response tothe commemts received from the Operations Offices on the teletype dispatched ?I&.J. A. Derry on December 6, 1949, outlining the b a s i c considerat ions in the establish en tad 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 t h e General Manager. After allowing an opportunity for further comments by the Working jointly with the Division of Research plans have been developed for a predoctoral fellowship program in t h e biological and physical sciences. academic year will be on a regional basis colnpriaed of the eastern, southern, midnest, and probably a western region. anticipated that the program dll be operated by non-AEC orgPnieot i m s 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 11. Sterner, AEC Industrial Medical Cansultant; Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, on December 20 and 21, 19h9, relative t o the research program and industrial and medical hazards. Dr. Max R. Zelle, formerly Professor of Bacteriology at Cornell University, has been appointed Geneticist in t h e Biology

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Branch of t h e Division of Biology and Uedicine. several years Dr. Zelle's research has been concerned primarily with genetic studies w i t h micro-organisms with emphasis upon the effects of ultraviolet irradiation. of the National Institute of Health, t h e Oak Itidge National Laboratory, where he was a visiting investigator the past suprmer, He has been on the staff t.- and Purdue University.