Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 10/31/1977

Funding Totals

$31,000.00 (approved)
$31,000.00 (awarded)


The Recombinant DNA Research Guidelines

FAIN: RH-10042-76

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Charles Weiner (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To collect and organize materials documenting the events leading to the 1975 moratorium on certain kinds of possibly hazardous DNA research, self-imposed by scientists conducting that research, and subsequent events.