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Medical Research Council: Biological Research Board: Minutes and Papers
Catalogue reference: FD 16
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FD 16
Minutes and papers of the Biological Research Board.
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FD 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Medical Research Council: Biological Research Board: Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes and papers of the Biological Research Board.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Biological Research Board, 1964-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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77 file(s)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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At a council meeting in January 1964, the Medical Research Council (MRC) decided to convert the Biological Research Awards Committee into the Biological Research Board (BRB). The brief of the former awards committee was extended to resemble that of the MRC's Clinical Research Board, except that the BRB was required to assist and advise MRC in the instigation and supervision of research in the fields of the prevention and cure of illness by chemical and biological agents.
The Biological Research Board came into being in May 1964. It was composed of a chairman and eight other members. Like the Clinical Research Board, the BRB continued to serve the MRC until the major reorganisation of September 1974, when the MRC set up the Social and Environmental Medicine Research Policy Committee over three new research boards (which replaced the BRB and Clinical Research Board) and the Tropical Medicine Research Board.
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Record URL
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