Title:

Letter from Roy Curtiss III to Donald S. Fredrickson

Creator:

University of Alabama in Birmingham
Curtiss, Roy , III

Recipient:

Fredrickson, Donald S.

Date:

12 April 1977

Description:

Roy Curtiss was an attendee at the Asilomar Conference and member of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee, which evaluated the safety risks and containment requirements of recombinant DNA experiments. After first agreeing to the voluntary moratorium on such experiments, Curtiss came to regard genetic engineering experiments involving the much-studied K-12 strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli as harmless, and called for revising the NIH guidelines to ease E. coli K-12 containment requirements.

Original Repository:

Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers

Location:

Box: 35. Folder: 1

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Roy Curtiss III.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA, Recombinant, Genetic Research, Escherichia coli, and Risk Management

Format:

Text

Extent:

14 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers. 12494

Legacy ID:

DJBBJS

NLM ID:

101584644X132

Profiles Collection:

The Maxine Singer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584644X132

Story Section:

Risk, Regulation, and Scientific Citizenship: The Controversy over Recombinant DNA Research