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Date: July 23, 1976

Dean Rich

Joshua Lederberg
Telephone call with Dr. David Rall, NIEHS.

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I called Dave Rall, Director of the NIEHS at Research Triangle
in connection with the announcement of the Environmental Research
Center's program that you had called to my attention.

 

I hardly needed to say three words indicating my interest in

developing this area before he responded very enthusiastically
and encouragingly.

I outlined very quickly a program that would include, to start
with the three facets that I think we are prepared to move into
quite aggressively and promptly:

1. Sensitive systems for assay of environmental toxicity - mutagenesis etc.

2. Chemical methods for environmental monitoring - computer-managed
GC-MS.

3. Policy analysis how to translate laboratory findings into measures
of risks, costs and benefits.

Dr. Rall said he would send us the existing literature describing the
scope of their program, and after we had had a chance to digest it

and some further dialogue that he thought it would be very desirable

if he and/or some of his senior staff on the grants program were to pay us

a visit and help work out the kind of program that might be feasible to
get started with.

He mentioned that they already have some grants out to SRI, mentioning
Gus Friedman there, and I do not know if he has a clear picture of the
difference between SRI and Stanford University. If there is any available

information on what it is that they are doing, it might be wise for us to
know about it.

*Dr. David P. Rall, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709,
(919)549-8411, Ext. 3201

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