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JOSHUA LEDERBERG July 25, 1979

PRESIDENT

Mr. Eli Evans

President

Charles H. Revson Foundation
444 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Dear Mr. Evans:

This is just to acknowledge your letter of July 2.
Dave Hamburg has told me about the Revson seminars that
he will be organizing at the Institute of Medicine and,
in fact, I hope I may be able to assist him in prelimi-
nary planning for some of them.

I welcome your invitation to stay in touch about
biomedical research policy and perhaps we might arrange
to meet together again in September or October. Mean-
while I am still trying to think through the particular
contribution that Rockefeller University might make:

I very badly want us to interface policy issues in the
evaluation of environmental toxicity but our principle
strength is of course in laboratory investigation. Any
ideas of your own about potential partners would be
most welcome.

In fact I have talked to one or two foundation
people about the desirability of setting up operating
programs, that is, engaging foundation staff to work
on the policy analytic side of such issues. I am
just not sure whether any existing institutions are
appropriate to grapple with them.

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Yours sincerely,

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Joshua Lederberg

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