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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Genetics

MAY 30 1972

Dr. Edward David
Office of Selence and Technology

Washington D.C.
Dear Dr. David:

In line with your overall interest and>responsibility for technology
initiatives, I am enclosing a copy of a current proposal we are submitting
to NIH on advancing the sophistication with which computers are used in
medicine. I have no thought of any form of intercession on your part with
NIH and its review process. I did hope that you might wish to be aware of
proposed efforts of this kind from the standpoint of overall budgetary sup-
port for Biotechnology Resource development. If these kinds of programs
can be healthily funded, it will of course attract many more worthy proposals.
Few:approaches could more quickly and directly enhance new technological ap-
plications in the health field, and in a way that would make the most effec-
tive use of aerospace related talents. (Consider, for example, the very
creative role that Mr. Tom Rindfleisch, recently of JPL, has in our own pro-
posal; and I am sure that a volume of machine procurements, similar to ours,
would have an important impact on computer manufacturers, taking the place
of the stimuli that hage been afforded by defense requirements. )

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Enclosed is also a memorandum on another computer-technology-related
suggestion. j

Yours sincerely ().
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