7 Dr Ralph Lapp Dr. Joshua Lederberg

 

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SUBJECT: Your nemo of 12 March DATE March 22, 1963

 

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This was most interesting and inforsative.

To answer the DaPont question: My proposal: would they invest say $10-25 Million te get
inte the field of development and preduction of ARTIFICTAL ORGANS? I mean this quite seri-
ously, and have already brushed upon it. Present researeh on this is pretty diffuse, and
needs a hard industrial type of push, ani it is hard te think of an apter organization
(after the ABC and MASA). Materials research, texicity testing, mechanical and chesiecal
engineering are all mixed in, and relatively less sophisticated medical and biological
problexs. First candidate: the improvement of the artificial kidmey, which could already
make the contemporary efforts at transplantation cbselééé; then the heart. I would guess
it would actually cost closer te $100-200 million to de the job, but 10% of this would
go a long way. At the ninimum it would put Dafont in a unique position with regard to
otha eet ahkne tee tenes eet Q/S3 and its consultants could de an excellent
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