UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL CENTER

 

 

BERKELEY * DAVIS + IRVINE * LOS ANGELES * RIVERSIDE * SAN DIEGO * SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA * SANTA CRUZ

 

 

A Tribute ta the Peopte of California

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94122
LABORATORY OF RADIOBIOLOGY
August 14, 1968

Professor J. Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto

California 94304

Dear Professor Lederberg:

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I enclose a reprint of my paper on the skin disease Xeroderma
pigmentosum which was published in Nature, May 18, 1968. Iam sorry for
the delay, but we did not receive the reprints until this week.

All of us in this laboratory were extremely pleased that you took note
of this piece of our work, and saw fit to use it as an example in your Washington
Post article. We appreciated the sentiments you expressed in the Washington
Post very much. There is no doubt, whatsoever, that we could never have
done this work on Xeroderma pigmentosum without the prior work on
microorganisms which provided us with the techniques and the framework of
thought. We are now extending our work to other skin diseases and to
heterozygous individuals in the hope of finding other genetic defects associated
with DNA repair.

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Thank you, again, for your interest and for the encouragement that
such interest has given us. °

Yours/sincerel af

finer © lau bf’

. Cleaver, Ph. Dv
\ssistant Professor of Radiobiology

  
  

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