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THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK. NY 10021

November 9, 1979

 

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Kenneth Warren

The Rockefeller Foundation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

Dear Ken:

In the course of trying to think through our strate-
gies for our own search in parasitology I had occasion to
look closely at the brochure that you distributed for your
fellowships in Geographic Medicine.

It seemed to me that the brochure was somewhat ambigu-
ous in its appeal to the more basic sciences. On the one
hand, the Purpose stresses the diseases and the more prag-
Matic approaches; it puts “properly qualified clinicians"
first. On the other hand, the section Means does indeed
talk about a very broad mandate with a Iot of emphasis on
the most basic approaches. But I have a hunch that many
students, who are very sophisticated in their basic sciences,
are less so when it comes to reading brochures. You may
be missing an attraction to a significant part of the com-
munity that you would like to address. The blue poster was
even less informative with respect to your interest in
basic science approaches. Again it talks about the diseases
and then it refers to the departments of medicine, pharma-
cology and immunology as the network. The name Geographic
Medicine is not necessarily going to be fully informative
even to some of the people that you might like to rope into
exactly that field.

My only suggestion is that you examine the advertising
material with a fresh eye and make "basic approaches to the
cultivation of molecular biology, biochemistry and immuno-
chemistry" more visible than it is at the present time.

Our own committee finds it hard to identify the one
person of senior stature that we feel it both desirable and
feasible to go after and so we may be marking time for a
little while, with the particular intention of ‘looking for
Dr. Kenneth Warren
November 9, 1979

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one or more people at a younger age group, perhaps
overlapping those who would be applying for your
fellowships. That of course was the reason that we
were taking a close look at the solicitation. If you
have any further thoughts of your own for possible
candidates we would be more than eager to have them.
Some of the same might well be identified as applicants
to the course next summer; and Dick Krause has also
told me of a forthcoming meeting on the genetics of
parasites that might also be evocative.

You sincerely,

Jofnua Lederberg