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May 1, 1973

Sranrorp University SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Genetics

Dr. Richard Ries

Regional Manager

European and American Section
National Science Foundation
Washington, D.C. 20550

Dear Dr. Ries,

I am enclosing now a formal, summary of the projects and budgetary
allocations to programs that are fairly attributal to the Stanford
contribution to the Stanford/Pavia exchange program in genetics and
molecular biology. You will note that the total contribution for
calendar year 1973 is estimated to total $86,750 from this side.

This is, I believe, a fair match to the support that Professor Ciferri
at Pavia will be receiving from his Italian counterpart.

May I ask you, however, about the feasibility of funding at a level
of between $5,000 and $10,000 for the special costs of maintaining visitors
from Pavia and sending some of our people over there over and above the
actual operational expenses of the research in which they would be involved.
We understand that routine research expenses and salaries for long-term
visitors are to be subsumed under our regular research projects grants.
However, it is difficult to justify the shorter visits entirely within
the framework of the research per se and, especially in the light of
the very restrictive funding climate for research projects during the
current year I am bound to ask you for help for these extraordinary
expenses within the framework and the concept of the exchange program.
Please advise about the most appropriate timing and format of applications
toward that end.

Sincerely yours,

oshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr
Enclosure

LT. J. P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY HEREDITY NEUROBIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE