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Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers
President and Dean

The Mount Sinai Medical Center
One Gustave Levy Place

New York, New York 10029

Dear Dr. Chalmers:

Thank you for your letter of June 20th. I was
pleased indeed to learn of the good news of the en-
dowment of the Lita Annenberg Hazen Fellowship Award.

I fully agree with your characterization of the dis-
turbing trends in clinical research in the current
climate and the critical importance of providing

measures to reverse that trend. I would re-echo, per-
haps even more strongly, some of the arguments that

you wrote concerning the limited effectiveness of cash
prizes. On the other hand, I have unreserved enthusiasm
abcut the public recognition that should be given to ex-
cellent clinical research and to the fellowship mechanism
that you have devised that accomplishes that purpose while
at the same time providing the material basis for re-en-
forcing the career commitments of a young person. I wish
you well indeed.

As to my own participation on the Awards Committee,
I cannot but take note of the excellence of the group in
whose company you would place me, as well as the very
good purpose that it would serve. However, I hope that
you can have some understanding for the stresses on my
time during this interval of transition and that you will
permit me to abjure during the interval of my settling in
at The Rockefeller University.

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