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Mr. Gordon Dean, Chairman This is t o report t o you on the 32nd meeting of the Advisoq Committee for Biology and Medicine which was held i n St. Louis on June 7, 8, and 9, 1952. An informative tour was made of the Mallinckrodt CherrrFcal Plant which had been arranged by Dr. Perry Morgan, the Area Manager, through the courtesy of Dr, Warren presented a policy change i n the Isotopes for Cancer Program which had been discussed a t our April meeting. t o the plan which had been approved by the Advisory Cornlittee onIsotope Distribution f o r the BEC to charge 20 per cent of the full catalogue list price for isotopes t o be used in cancer research and therapy. 3 am sure you wiU be interested t o learn that the Conanittee heartily endorsed the item i n the Research Division's budget for the development of methods for processing cesiumwhichprodses t o be an extremely useful isotope f o r therapy. The Cormnittee.voted t o lend approval The Committee unanimously approved and suggested that an expression of appreciation should be forwarded t o the Cods sion for providing the Division of Biology andHedicine with a sufficient travel allotment t o permit on= and off-site visits by the staff t o the projects and t o the investigators. The subject of a patent clause in iiE(= contracts was presented. The Committee was adament in it sqr ess ions that ho exceptions t o the patent clause should be made in any contract unless the ps?tent Branch would be willing t o make the same exception applicable to a l l B & M contracts if a need should arise. I n a discussion of overhead allowances on lump-sum, fixed-overhead research contracts, it was the view of the Committee t h a t there should not be an increase i n overhead allowances until partic2pating universities and institutions prodded more precise information a s t o their increasod overhead costs. It was approved unanimously that the iunerican Association of Nedical Schools and the National Academy of Sciences shouLd be asked t o mako a study of %hi?purpose of Government support of research a t colleges and Universities and the effect of such support on overhead costs a t the participating inskitutions. Steps are being taken t o implement the Cod tt eels recommendation.