24. 117th meeting, 12 July 1945

File — Box: 1, Folder: 24

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.