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- 5 June 1967-2 April 1970 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence relating to: the establishment of an ad hoc programme committee for seminars and working groups on the "relationship between basic biological research and the etiology of human congenital malformations of the urinary tract"; and two resulting conferences on congenital malformations of the kidney, held at the Salk Institute (Dec 1968 and Mar 1970).
The ad hoc committee included Bronowski, Jonas Salk and Renato Dulbecco from the Salk Institute, and participants from Universities and the National Foundation.
The file also includes a suggested agenda for the first meeting of the committee, outlines developed for seminar programmes, proposed and final conference programmes, lists of participants for the 1968 conference, and correspondence relating to Rita Bronowski hosting conference guests at the Bronowskis' house.