<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> In December the Center For Celiac Research (CFCR) posted notification of the above meeting to be sponsored by the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), a branch of the National Institute Of Health (NIH). We are pleased to update that announcement with the following informaton from the NIDDK: The Digestive Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee (DDICC) of the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases will sponsor a meeting on March 10, 1998. The topic of the meeting will be Celiac Disease Research Sponsored by the Federal Government. The DDICC is a congressionally mandated trans-government committee, which has as its mission the coordination of all government sponsored activities in the area of digestive diseases. It is therefore, mainly a policy determining and coordinating committee. Its actions are based on state-of-the-art of digestive diseases research and recommendations from the scientific community. The tentative schedule for the meeting is to have Dr. Alessio Fasano, University of Maryland CFCR; Dr. Martin Kagnoff, University Of California, San Diego; and Dr. Joseph Murray, University of Iowa represent the scientific community to prove a state-of-the-art discussion; and, Dr. Frank Hamilton, NIH, to provide a summary of NIH support. Each of the scientific panel will be given a specified period of time to present their information to the members of the DDICC. A brief period of discussion will follow. Subsequently, the meeting will go into closed session. Specific time and place may not be available until later this month and we will post when it is. For further information - when available - please contact Pat Hamilton at Cygnus Corporation, 301-231-7537.