FOR CFFICIAL USE ONLY -3- consiucred as rather flexible and not be held rigidly to a firm rule of one person per year ver major unit .nd that the individual selected should be regarded as representing tue Atomic Lnergy Commission whether or not all of his cxpctnses are to ove paid by funds fron the sutomic wnergy Commission. With the above correction made, the minutes were approved unanimously upon a motion by Dr. Warren and seconded by Dr. Doisy. Rescarch Projects projects was opened by Dr. The discussion on the research jugher, Dr. Dunham, Dr. Pearson, and Dr. Claus. The Committce vas particularly intcrcestcd in the work now being carri-d on at the University of Rochester unacr the supervision of Dr. Levis Hempelmann. The report was sumnarized by hr. Haggerty and covered the following subjects, namely: (1) water tolcrance of irradistcd rats; (2) the effeet of liver injury on the mortality of irradiated rats; (3) the urinary cxerution of desoxyribonuclease in irradiated rats; (h) the olasma and urinary anino acids in irradiated dogs; and (5) blood changes in rabbits. Clinical expcriments are in progress on: (1) urinary corticords in radiction therapy patients; (2) eosinophil counts in radiation therapy patients; (3) physiological changes in irradiated skin or lung of therapy vaticnts; and (4) late follow-u» of children whose thymses were irradiated in infancy. Animal cxperiments in progress includes (1) a study of the free glycine pool and the rate at which glycine FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY