JUL 20 BA

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20014

 

July 16, 1971

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Joshua:

I was delighted with your call yesterday. Thanks awfully for
your interest and encouragement.

I am enclosing the various materials about which I spoke to you.
The article by Fujikura and Froehlich is interesting but of very limited
usefulness. The proposal to study the effects of sickling and G6PD
deficiency could be improved and I would greatly appreciate your comments.
We will not be called upon to defend it till early September, so that
we have plenty of time to revise it. The budget for the individual
institutions, for example, may be unrealistically low. Apparently
there will be another 5 million available for the next fiscal year,
and we may want to extend the study beyond its present scope.

The promotional material was put together by Dr. Hardy with the
help of some of the other Project Directors. I think that it gives a
fair idea ofthhe scope of the study and its accomplishments and present
status, and emphasizes well the adverse effects of the cuts. Please
let me know if you need more materials.

With many thanks again, and best personal regards,

Very sincerely

Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos, Ph.D.

Head, Section on Epidemiology and
Genetics

Perinatal Research Branch

National Ins¢{§tmte of Neurological
Diseases an€ ‘Stroke

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