Director's Advisory Committee

The Director's Advisory Committee (DAC) was founded in 1966 to provide recommendations on NIH program development, resource allocation, policies, and regulations. From left to right in the front row are: Leon Jacobs; Hans Stetten; Fredrickson; Ronald Lamont-Havers, Deputy Director, NIH; Joseph Perpich, NIH Associate Director for Planning and Program Evaluation; Judge David Bazelon, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals; and Robert Sinsheimer, Chairman, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.