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  <dc:title>Press release on Mary Lasker&apos;s appointment to the National Advisory Cancer Council</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>Health Planning Councils</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Lasker was a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council from 1954 to 1970, for many years the only female member.  Advisory boards approve NIH grants to researchers in academia, non-profit foundations, and industry--which make up the largest share of the NIH budget--and in this way influence the direction of biomedical research.  Lasker had successfully lobbied for a legal provision making half the members of advisory boards laymen.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Produced: September 1954</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Mary Lasker Papers</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>National Cancer Institute (U.S.)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Press releases</dc:type>
  <dc:type>Announcements</dc:type>
  <dc:type>Drafts (documents)</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Archival Materials</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>2 pages</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101584665X198-doc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101584665X198</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584665X198</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Profiles ID: TLBBMN</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>Profiles in Science</dc:relation>
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