JUN 2 4 1964
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

DEPARTMENT OF BIOPHYSICS
$640 BLLIS AVENUB
CHICAGO + ILLINOIS 60637

June 22, 1964

Professor J. Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford Medical Center
Palo Alto, California

Dear Professor Lederberg:

I sincerely hope the Exobiology Summer Study June meeting at
Stanford was a most successful one. I regret that I was unable

to attend due to other pressing commitments here at the University;
however, I keenly look forward to definitely attending the

August work session.

I am sending you under separate cover a copy of our 1963/64 NASA
Annual Progress Report. We have now finished the installation of
the new electron microscope facilities in the Research Institute
here at the University, which are provided with a special regulated
power supply and related equipment for high resolution work.

We are gradually building up a rather unique experimental

research and training facility in the field of cell ultrastructure
and molecular biology. We feel that under such favorable conditions
this unit could develop as the nucleus of a larger national and
international research and training center for molecular biology
and electron microscopy.

In particular, you will notice Page 4 of the Summary and Page III-2
that we are specifically working on development of techniques for
electron optical examination of extraterrestrial matter.

We hope that we will have the privilege of showing you our new
electron microscope laboratories in the near future. I am also
sending you under separate cover a copy of the reprint entitled,
"New Approaches in Correlative Studies of Biological Ultrastructure
by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy," which I thought might be
of some interest to you.

I look forward to the pleasure of seeing you in-August at Stanford
and remain, with kindest personal regards

Sincerely yours,

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H. #ternandez-Moran, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biophysics

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