[Memorandum to Acting Deputy Director for Intramural Research, NIH from F. William Dommel, Jr.]

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scientific collaboration; moreover, the researcher-s of the N.L.H. were flot
eveni informe.1 of their existence, and learned or them only through the
national press. B. Moss had no part in their publications, The participation
of R. Gallo was justified only by his general and fundamental -intellectual,
contribution (sec lA4.). In no case was fi invulved in the development,
implerientaition or the follow-up studies of thesA.e programs. as is usual in
scient if i c collaboration.
For program F, the roic of the N.1,11. wras limited to contributing thiree
vials! of recombinant vaccinu for &t speciffied usage, which was
scrupulously respected thiere %was no other budgetary or scientific
par ticipation by thc NAi.H in the program, whether inl the ConcCptionI of the
work, the adminid.-tration of the cell preparation5 or the follow -ut) studies
of patient:s.We have of course re~spected the req4uest- of the N.I.H. not to uise
the vaccine v -hich it supplied outside the r*raniework or this program and in
accordance %vith the procedure-s indicated (fixed cello). This is thceforc not
str.ictlv s.pe aking a scientific collaboration but an instan41ce Of coniditoal
scivtifi 5i~~u01) L hc part of the N.I.H.. It w-as authorised bhy the N.I.H.
an thC oonStraints Concerning use oflthe vaccine vwere respected. A
turther poifLtconc-.erning this project F:
FICI rnhdVcuiitulQ~iCU and ethiical rules (whichSince January 199 1 have
been codifiedi in the Huriet lavw) have all been observed, since 1989, ee
before the applicat ion of the lawv becumc compulsoryv. Thii is clear ln. shv\vn