Title:

White House Roundtable on Biological Warfare Preparation

Date:

10 April 1998

Description:

White House Roundtable on Biological Warfare Preparation. Participants are, from the left: Tom Monath, Jerry Hauer, Craig Venter, Frank Young (moderator) Joshua Lederberg, Lucy Shapiro, Barbara Rosenberg, unidentified, General Joseph Ralston, John Hamre, unidentified, Donna Shalala, President Bill Clinton, unidentified, and Sandy Berger. William Cohen and Janet Reno were also in attendence for part of the session. Autographed by President Clinton.

Location:

Box: 171. Folder: 104

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

BBBACD

NLM ID:

101584906X12251

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X12251

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: January 23, 1999. This was a meeting convened by President Clinton to review the tangibility of threats of biological weapons attack on civil populations. ----------------- White House www.whitehouse.gov Roundtable on Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons April 10, 1998 President Clinton will lead a roundtable discussion on Friday morning on genetic engineering and biological weapons. He will be joined by a small group of outside experts and several Cabinet members. The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss advances in technology and their potential implications for controlling and responding to the biological weapons threat. The President has a longstanding interest in these issues. This roundtable discussion will provide him with an opportunity to talk with some of the country's leading experts about both the opportunities and the national security challenges posed by infectious diseases and genetic engineering and biotechnology. In his State of the Union address, the President underscored the importance of preventing the use of disease as a weapon of war or terror by strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention with a new international inspection system to detect and deter cheating. This is one of the issues which will be addressed, along with domestic and military efforts to respond to biological warfare threats. Participants in the roundtable include Administration Participants: President Secretary Cohen Attorney General Reno Secretary Shalala Director Tenet Sandy Berger John Podesta Deputy Secretary Hamre Under Secretary Holum General Ralston Jim Steinberg Don Kerrick Kerri-Ann Jones Outside Experts: RADM Frank Young Former Head of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Public Health Service Former Commissioner, FDA Craig Venter President Institute for Genomic Research Joshua Lederberg Nobel Laureate President Emeritus, The Rockefeller University Thomas Monath Vice President, OraVax Former Centers for Disease Control and US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases Official Lucille Shapiro Professor of Genetics and Chairman of the Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine Jerome Hauer Director Mayor's Office of Emergency Management for the City of New YOrk Barbara Rosenberg Director of Chemical and Biological Projects, Federation of American Scientists Research Professor of Environmental Science, State University of New York

Lederberg Grouping:

CF. Correspondence F.