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wzs presented by the Health ivision at our 25th meeting ograms coupled with the group ere the work undemay was disInstrument Division and t held at the Hanford visits t o the laboratory sect: cussed and demonstrated, se- impress us witn tne ? now urc LL At the tine of our last Vis The session was opened on Saturday morning, Jzn~ary13, with a interesting review of t h e research progruns. It vas brought o that during the next 1 2 months i n making renemlo o r grants co siderztion should be given tothe extent t o vhich milit jr - ing is going to deplete certain schools a d take may be directly involved with w-ork on the projects. nection it was suggested that progre ~n scertain whether the project i s being directed
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returned fron Japan i n time t o report on the by the Atomic Bomb CzsuzLty Commissio'J, of the effects upon the ' population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ;of r-iation emanating from the exylosions of atonic bombs i n 194.5. the program i n Japzn be contimied #aif SO, t o what exten ' f.iachle and due to the unset tl contact the Stzte Department t ultimate treaty with Japan, et was made. It was Dr. Machlels ted for the fiscal year 1952 does ut of the project. continuing research fora gem ' ' year 1951 ed f o r current phasing out o f the project. The cornittee belie- everything possible should be done t o elllist the emly support o f the most competent Japanese human geneticists t o continue t h e genetic work, with the hope that ways certain work in collaboration with then. be found in t h i s country other then through the BEC t o continue The committee expressed t h e hope that the leukemiz study could be coq let ed within the next six months and that the problem could be folloved hy Japmese scientists after the ternination date of the program with the same interest as they have shown i n the genetic
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_ -The next meetiw of the Advisory COli$littee for Biology and Medicine Wiii be on Siiay and saturw-; The agenda is t o include a I understand that officials Defense program and tion are to be invited t o outline their problems t0,u.s. Advisory Committee f o r Biology znd I.ledicine