DFFICIAL USI. ONL” The AEC Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine held its 126th meeting at AEC Headquarters, Germantown, on September 13, 1968, and at che "H™ Street Office, September 14, 1968. Committee members present were Drs. Green (Chairman), Cohen (Vice-Chairman), Bale, Haagen-Smit, McGee, and Rosemary Elmo (Executive Secretary). Also present were Drs. Totter (Director), Storer (Deputy Director) and various members of the staff of the Division of Biology and Medicine; Dr. Spofford English, Asst. General Manager for Research & Development, and Dr. Nathaniel Barr and Mr. Enzi DeRenzis, of the AGMRD staff. Dr. John Harley, HASL, NYOO, was also present. The program on September 13 consisted of a series of briefings. The meeting was opened by Dr. Totter, who introduced new and returning DBM staff members (Drs. Fluke, Judd, Schulman, Biology Branch; Richmond, Geldstein, Brooks, Medical Branch; Huebner, Radiation Physics & Inz:trumentation Branch; Gross, Fallout Studies Branch; Cutshall, Envirormental Sciences Branch. Dr. Totter informed the group that the natives have beer returned tro Bikini. He discussed the budget situation, advising that BOB may approve a modest increase in appropriation similar to the one approved in 1969. Reorganization of DBM Research Program. Mr. Whitnah discussed a proposed reclassification of the biology and medicine program, which emphasizes its objectives and would facilitate its presentation to the BOB and various committees of Congress. The three major categories are 1) interaction of radiation with biological systems; 2) assessment, evaluation and control of radiation exposure to man and his environment, and 3) beneficial applications of radiation. New program areas defined in the reclassification are 1) exposures to external and internal radiation; 2) a separate activity for atmospheric sciences, and 3) a grouping of all clinical research in nuclear medicine, Pending further review of the staff it is expected that the budget for FY 1971 will be developed along the lines of the new classification. Visit to Russia with IAEA Panel. Dr. W. R. Bibb reported on his participation at an TAEA panel on "Current Problems of Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation with Special Emphasis on their Conservation and Culture" held in Moscow, June 22-26, 1968. He discussed the relatively wide use cf human bone marrow transplantation as an acceptable therapeutic tool in the USSR, His impressions, based on the presentations of the Russian scientists, indicated that considerable doubt still exists regarding the viability of the frozen bone marrow preparations and its ability to repopulate a stem cell depleted patient. He pointed out the dicotomy which exists between the philosophy of the USSR and USA regarding transplantation. The USA has shown no hesitancy in considering organ transplantation as an acceptable procedure whereas the OFFICIAL USE ONLY