DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL
33 JOANCHO, KITAKU, OSAKA, JAPAN

Jan. 28, 1963

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Medical Center

Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh,

Since I came back to my laboratory in Osaka on
1960, I got feelings that it is possible to do my own
classic type of genetic works but very difficult to
develope the works into the field of modern biology.

We needs good co-workers who have experiences
in the fields of biochemistry or biophysics, such as
A. Tsugita and H. Uchida, in a laboratory where well
equipped, and we have decided to ask to ministry of
education which governs our university to make our
own laboratory having 3 units, genetics, biochemistry
and biophysics.

Fortunately, Professor P. Doty of Harverd Univ.
kindly asked to the Ford Foundation and $8,000 were
donated to our plan on 1963,

And now, we are started to ask ministry of
education to elect such a laboratory. In order to
realize it, letters of supporting the plan from bright
researchers not only from this country but also from
overseas to demonstrate that the plan is really
necessary at the present moment,

This is why we enclose a letter in the same cover,

If you could support this plan for us, please
write a letter suggesting the plan is really necessary
and fruitful to develope the new field of science in
this country.

Yours very sincerely,

diene Hirota