THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

pro bono humani generis
1230 YORK AVENUE - NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021-6399

Joshua Lederberg
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

August 29, 1994

| Dr. Andre F. Marion
a Applied Biosystems
Lincoln Center Drive
Foster City, CA 94404

Dear Andre:

I have not had a chance to see you since the merger with Perkin-Elmer; but I trust that is
going very well to your satisfaction, and that of the scientific community’s. The merger did
of course moot the matter of my possibly joining your board; I am sorry that other
circumstances not under my control interfered with my chance of closer affiliation with you,
personally and institutionally.

My own work is going right along, as I continue my research as a professor here.

I do have a favor to ask of you, though you may have only an indirect connection with the
decisional parties at this time. The Rockefeller University has just submitted the attached
proposal to the Perkin Elmer Corporation for our Shared Technology Center. I wanted to
express my own deep interest in the success of that proposal, which would be a direct boon to

my own laboratory, as well as to many of my colleagues who are doing work of inestimable
fundamental importance.

If you have any way to just put in a word on our behalf, I would be most appreciative. The
Perkin family has had a long interest in the university; in fact I will be lunching with Dick
Perkin today, but any other positive input can only be helpful.

With best regards, and I hope we can try the Mandarin Gourmet again soon: it’s my turn to
pick up the tab,

   
   
 

§ sincerely,

Igshua ederberg

P.S. I enclose a couple of other items that may interest you, on DNA
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