THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK. NY 10021
January 26, 1987

 

JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. M. B. Sahasrabudhe
Emeritus Scientist

41 Saras Baug
Sion-Trombay Road
Deonar, Bombay 400 088
India

Dear Dr. Sahasrabudhe:

It was a pleasure to hear from you again and I ‘thank you
very much for keeping me up-to-date with your activities since
our last meeting in 1958.

About your proposal in cancer diagnosis: the kind of clini-
cal testing you have in mind is really quite out of the purview
of The Rockefeller Institute. My suggestions for its further
pursuit depend on whether you have in mind supervising the clini-
cal protocols yourself or are trying to inspire other groups to
do that.

In either case it is important to know what publications
or patents you may have that would allow sufficient disclosure
to enable a critical judgement to be made about your proposal.

There are then three avenues for further pursuit (forgive
me for explaining the obvious perhaps there will be some small
thing here that would be of new help to you):. 1) research
hospitals devoted to cancer -- like the Sloan-Kettering Insti-
tute. 2) The National Cancer Institute in the United States --
have you been in touch with any of the officials there? 3) Com-
mercial pharmaceutical companies which would be more than eager
to exploit your methods if they could be persuaded of their
validity. You hardly need me for 1 or 2. With respect to 3:
if you would care to also send me a C.V. and general personal
bibliography, as well as the published technical background on
your diagnostic methodology, there are two or three companies
that I could. think of sending this to. I could give you the
names of some others for your own further initiative.
Dr. M. B. Sahasrabudhe
January 26, 1987

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As I read your letter again I am little confused whether
you think the next step is in animal models or directly in
clinical material. For the former is it a matter of finding
funding? As far as facilities at The Rockefeller Institute go,
for the next two or three years we are really heavily over-
booked. We are putting up a new research building but in the
process have to demolish one of the smaller existing ones. So
it is all we can do to find reasonable relocation for our own
people during the interval.

With very best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

ua Lederberg