Attachment 5

       UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UC) BAY AREA 
		BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

OVERVIEW

Type of institution:  university laboratories (Division of Medical 
Physics in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories) and 
medical school (UC San Francisco)

Mission: general and medical research

Links:  Los Alamos; University of Chicago; AEC generally; NIH oncology 
clinic; mental hospital

Experiments or other radiation research:
*    Plutonium injections
*    Other biomedical injections in the 1950's
*    TBI
*    Others still being explored
Secret or classified research: Yes, but extent unknown

AVAILABLE DATA 

Experiments: 
*    Histories of research program: AEC Inspector General's report; 
     others
*    "Start/stop" documents for specific experiments/programs: Some 
     available, others being requested
*    Publications or reports for specific experiments/programs : Many

Program:
*    Record of chains of command for program decisions and review :  
     Partially reconstructed, unclear if much new  data would be 
     available
*    Funding source: AEC; other funding not yet determined
     Was there secret or classified funding? Yes, but nature and 
     extent still being explored

Consent:  What was the extant consent policy? 
     The policy changed, as described, in part, in the discussion of 
the plutonium injections.
*    The  institutional form for the policy: Not yet fully determined
*    Records of implementation: Not identified

Subject selection:  Cancer  patients (plutonium), nursing home 
patients, mental patients, prisoners, children

OVERSIGHT

     AEC, university regents


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