MAK 2 0 1978

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20014

March 16, 1978

 

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Chairman, Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94304

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

I am writing to you at the suggestion of Rod Nichols who has indicated
to me you have an interest in tropical medicine.

As you probably know, I left Rockefeller University two years ago to
become Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. Our Institute has the primary responsibility within the
National Institutes of Health for research on the infectious diseases of
the tropics. We of course, are concerned not only with the parasitic
diseases, but also with the bacterial and virus diseases which are of
major importance in the tropical countries and in the developing regions
of the world. I believe I am correct in saying that NIAID has supported
Bill Trager's research ever since Rockefeller went off the gold standard
and began accepting federal paper money.

For your information, I have enclosed a lecture entitled "Science Knows
No Country" which I delivered recently at the Anglo-American Conference
on Tropical Medicine in London. In this lecture, I tried to set forth
some of the issues concerning the role of research in these difficult
health problems and at the same time identify several new administrative
initiatives which we plan to implement in an effort to foster research
on these diseases. a

I have enclosed, also for your information, in case it has not been sent
to you in the past, our most recent annual report entitled "Sure Found-
ations."

I would be delighted to discuss these or other matters with you at
sometime in the future when you are in Washington or when we are both in
New York at the same time.

Yours sincerely,

Ric M. Krause, M.D.

Director, National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Enclosure

cc: Rodney W. Nichols