OCT 2 5 1963

SCRIPPS CLINIC
AND

RESEARCH FOUNDATION

DIVISION 476 PROSPECT STREET

OF LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
BIOCHEMISTRY 454-6141

October 24, 1963

Dr, Joshua Lederberg

Chairman, Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive

Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh:

You will have received earlier this week a letter from Dr. James
Day, President of the Soclety of Scripps Fellows, inviting you to glve the
Sherrill Lecture at our Institution sometime In the Spring. In reinforcing
this Invitation, | do hope that you will be able to accept because of the
great value that such a lecture has for a group of young Ph.D. and M.D.
postdoctoral Fellows and also because it will enable us to show you this
Institution which, like other blologically-oriented groups In La Jolla, is
expanding at a fast pace,

As you may know, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation is a
medically-orlented research Institute which earlier consisted of a group of
clinical departments with a strong Interest In metabolic diseases. During
the last few years, however, the arrival of Baird Hastings from Harvard,
Frank Dixon and his entire Department of Experimental Pathology from
Pittsburgh, and our group in Biochemistry has provided a series of strong
basic science departments and has changed markedly the overall] complexion
and aims of the Institution. John Spizizen Is coming from Minnesota next
year to organize a Division of Microblology. The Division of Biochemistry,
although only a little more than one year old, has six staff members (in-
cluding Walter Dandliker and Youssef Hatefi) and about 30 other people in-
cluding 13 Postdoctoral Fellows. Conditioned by my earlier experiences with
Melvin Calvin and David Green, | have found it easy to return to the research
institute life after 12 years at the University of Washington Medical School,
The opportunity to do research on a full-time basis with good facilities and
stimulating Fellows Is extremely attractIve, and | have found that the nearby
University of California provides all of the academic activities in which 1
wish to partIcIpate,

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The Sherrill Lecture is designed primarily for the 50 or so post-
doctoral Fellows although beIng a public affair, it attracts a large number
of scientists and lay people from the community. No doubt your exciting
work on ExobJology would provide a good theme for this audience. Your

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Dr. Joshua Lederberg
October 24, 1963
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acceptance of this lectureshIp would be of great benefit to our Fellows and
| hope that you can find time in your schedule to accept the invitation.

Looking forward to seeing you In La Jolla, | am, with very best
regards to you and Esther,

Sincerely yours,

Frank

Frank M. Huennekens
Head, Divislon of Biochemistry

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P.S. The enclosed reprints, which describe some of our recent work, may be
of interest to you,

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