Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GAETANO SALVATORE AND HOWARD K. SCHACHMAN Our proposal for this conference was approved by Dr. Claude Lenfant , who at the time was Director of the Fogarty International Center (FIC). We would like to thank him for his steady support and his critical interest in the meeting. We would also like to thank Dr. Vida Beaven and Dr. Mark S. Beaubien, acting as directors of the center during the months immediately preceding the conference. Clearly, this conference would not have been possible without the invaluable contribution and support of Dr. Peter G. Condliffe, Chief of the Scholars-in-Residence Branch of FIC, and we want to thank him most warmly. We wish also to thank the staff of the FIC, including the late Dr. Earl W. Chamberlayne, Dr. John A. Burke, and Mrs. Nancy Shapiro. The essential facts and figures on the mobility of scientists and data on international cooperation were collected for this conference by Dr. Charles V. Kidd, who had been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director's staff under Dr. James Shannon and who has had a long career on the staff of the National Academy of Science and the President's Science Advisory Council. Part of his inquiry is included in these Proceedings. In preparing the conference we had many discussions with several of our fellow scholars, among whom we would like to mention Georges Cohen, Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Elvin Kabat, Roger Monier, Sarah Ratner, Albert Renold, Nathan Sharon, Jan Waldenstrom, and Meir Wilchek. Within the NIH campus, advice and support was provided by several colleagues, among them William Jakoby, Ruth Kirschstein, Ira Pastan, Jesse Roth, and Joseph E. Rail, Deputy Director for Intramural Research at NIH, who provided invaluable advice and enthusiastic support . An advisory committee consisting of Christian B. Anfinsen, John A. Burke, Peter G. Condliffe, Charles V. Kidd, Ruth Kirschstein, Joseph E. Rail, Joseph B. Stanbury, and ourselves was convened by the FIC. Outside the NIH, several European research councils, including the CNRS and INSERM from France, the CNR from Italy, the MRC from both the United Kingdom and Sweden, the FNRS from Belgium, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Scientific Directorate of the EEC, theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ciba Foundation , and numerous other research organizations provided significant help. We are also particularly indebted to Henry Danielson, David S226 I G. Salvatore and H. K. Schachman · Acknowledgment Evered, Donald Seldin, and John Tooze for their contributions to the development of the program for the conference. We are, of course, greatly indebted to all the speakers, many ofwhom made considerable personal sacrifices to participate in the conference and prepare manuscripts for the Proceedings. Finally, we want to express our special appreciation to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, who delivered the opening lecture, and to Mrs. Franca Falcucci, the Minister of Education of the Italian Government, who graciously attended the meeting and greeted the participants at the Italian embassy. The financial support and the organizational assistance of the FIC are gratefully acknowledged. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 29, 3, Part 2 ¦ Spring 1986 | S227 ...