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EN June 7, 1979

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Peter O. Williams
Director and Secretary
The Wellcome Trust

1 Park Square West
London, NW1l 4LJ
England

Dear Peter:

This is by way of an amendation to the letter that
Rodney Nichols sent you last month about your proposed
fellowship program in parasitology. I have talked to
Ken Warren, meanwhile, about the special laboratory
course in the organisms of parasitic disease that we
are trying to organize at the Marine Biological Labora-
tory at Woods Hole. I think this will be a keystone in
the promulgation of scientific interest in parasites.
Obviously it affords a particular opportunity for short
term fellowship support, especially to enable students
from outside the United States to participate.

With respect to the more general program, that you
and I had discussed before, I can understand the argument
that it should not be limited to a single institution.
This would be quite inappropriate in the long run: and we
at the Rockefeller would certainly not wish to be the
sole instrument of exchange. However, there is no doubt
that it would be administratively much simpler to manage
a program that had a clearly identified single focus; and
I thought it would accelerate the idea to start it off,
on a modest scale, just that way.

As the rationale for this proposal is to help make
the administration of the fellowship awards more manage-
able, this is a decision that of course must be left pri-
marily in your hands.
Dr. Peter O. Williams
June 7, 1979

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We are actively initiating a formal search for a
senior professorship in parasitology, and to that end
I would certainly welcome any suggestions you might
have. We have not yet fully characterized the position:
but we are surely looking for a person who could embrace
both the most modern approaches of contemporary chemical
biology, and a real interest in the biology of parasites
responsible for important disease.

Yoyrs sincerely,

 

Jfshua Lederberg

cc: Mr. Rodney W. Nichols