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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

 

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE BETHESDA 14, MD.

 

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
OLiver 6-4000

September 21, 1960

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Biology
Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh;

I have been asked to write to you and the others listed
below to find out if you would be available to participate in
a Metabolism and Genetics Mission to Russia in October 1961.
This mission is under the aegis of the Office of International
Research Activities and, like other missions of this kind. is
considered to be a significant part of our general cultural
exchange program with the USSR. The present group will be
completely analogous to earlier ones that you have probably
heard about, such as the one in 1959 which included Arthur
Kornberg, Konrad Bloch, Bernard Davis, and DeWitt Stetten,.
Since my name is included in the list, I am naturally very much
aware of the time that this project will take from our normal
routines. However, the idea of such a visit (which, incidentally,
would be for a total of 3 to 4 weeks as I understand it) is
certainly important enough to justify some expenditure of time.
I hope I will hear from you soon with at least an indication of
your preliminary feelings about being a member of this mission,

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

C. B. Anfinsen, Jr.

Chief, Laboratory of Cellular
Physiology and Metabolism

National Heart Institute

Prof, Seymour Benzer
Prof, Curt Stern

Dr. Alfred D. Hershey
Prof. George W. Beadle

National Cancer Institute National Heart Institute National Inatitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Inatitute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases
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