10. 103rd meeting, 18 January 1945
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The volume (disbound) contains copies of the minutes with related
correspondence of the Committee on Medical Research of the Office
of Scientific Research and Development, 1944 Sept. 21-1946 Sept.
27-28, documenting the committee's work through the end of World
War II and its demobilization. Included is a list of the committee's
resolutions, 19411945. The minutes bear occasional holograph
notes written by its chairman, Alfred N. Richards.
Responsibilities and concerns of the committee which are treated in the minutes include: recommendations to fund, terminate, or transfer government research contracts; approval or classification of publications derived from contract projects; and the transition from wartime to peacetime research, including plans for an organization to succeed the Committee on Medical Research. Principal subjects in the minutes are: aviation medicine; the development and uses of penicillin and antimalarial drugs;jconsiderations of volunteer human subjects in antimalarial drug experiments; and the exchange of biomedical information with English and Soviet researchers.
Responsibilities and concerns of the committee which are treated in the minutes include: recommendations to fund, terminate, or transfer government research contracts; approval or classification of publications derived from contract projects; and the transition from wartime to peacetime research, including plans for an organization to succeed the Committee on Medical Research. Principal subjects in the minutes are: aviation medicine; the development and uses of penicillin and antimalarial drugs;jconsiderations of volunteer human subjects in antimalarial drug experiments; and the exchange of biomedical information with English and Soviet researchers.
Dates
- 18 January 1945
Extent
From the Collection: 1 volume
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Committee on Medical Research (Organization)
Repository Details
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