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rs and Division Heads FROX : Carroll L. Wilson, General Manager SUBJ3CT : Meeting of the d visor y $oinmitteg3for Biology and Medicine The seventh meeting of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Xedicine will be held March 13, 1948 a t Brookhaven Laboratorias, Upton, New York. Invitation is cordially extended to attend this meeting, 1. Consideration of t h e Uinutes of t h e meeting of February 14, 3948. 2. Report on t h e Fellowship Program. (b) Report by Dr. John Z. Bowers on basic training centers. 'rit ions to familiarize themselves with the problems, in order that physics: Suggestion that selected instructors at basic training %enters be urged t o spend the summer a t one of the AEC install a - \;:,'/jt <i*'''d''%hey may plan the courses they will give with a better under1standing of the needs of the Fellows. Ha al th physicists and others ,could cooperate with instructors in t'ne preparation of the courses. * #',Fellov;ships be given the opportunity to acquire a broad + raining in /''R~"'"'biophysics leading to a Ph. D. degree, t o supply the demand for firstSuggestion that clearance of visiting instructors be obtained (d) Statemsnt on numbars and quality of applicants,including
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t3. Medical Aspects of Hazard Pay: doses of radiation, and routine exposure to toxic materials in process of manufcicture, be regarded as unnecessary. Itis recommended that hazard pay inso far as it relates to routine axposure to permissible 4. Policy with regard to beryl los is research : It i s recommended Rochester, School of ldadicine and Dentistry, Atomic Energy Pro j act and atthe Trudesu Foundation, Sar mac Lake, N. Y. inso far as AEC support in this field is concerned. Only field studies should be supported a to thar facilities, that work on beryl los is be concentrcted at the University of Policy with regard to informztion on beryl los is. Policy with regard to encouragement of com irc i al synthesis o f It i s recommended -that a t least five commercial firms be encouraged t o undertake synthesis of r sdio active compounds ,with contractual aid up t o $15,000 each. 7. Policy with regard to isotope farms (Dr. G. Fail la) ; It i s recommended that up t o $15,000 be mcde available, Policy with regard tons ture and extent of program in biology (Dr. Nims) ; medicine and health physics at Brookhavm National 9. Policy with regard to Civilian Defense. 10. Question of support of biophysics progr<un a t Johns Hopkins. 11. Report on supporh of research : Southern Research Institute, Birmingham,Alabama: The only item acted upon since thi: last maeting has baen a grant to Southorn Research Institute of $15,000 for ao on tract to study body retention of carbon-14. 12. Request for Beta tron at Illinois. Itis recommended that the present policy providing special equipment at the regional laboratories be continued and that if that policy be extended it be extended only t o tnose universities having intimate contractual relations with the Atomic
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14, Piace and time of April m2eting: Recommendsd: April 23-24, Berkeley, California,