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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20014

May 11, 1973

 

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

School of Medicine

Palo Alto ifornia 94304

Dear Dr. - re:

As of about May 1, 1973, I completed the special assignment I wrote
about in my January 18, 1973, letter to you. I am resuming therefore
the normal duties and responsibilities of Chief, Biotechnology Resources
Branch. I appreciate both the diligent efforts of my staff during my
absence and your cooperation with them.

The subject of my efforts while away from BRB was the future of NIH
research resources programs, with special emphasis on how diverse
arrays of research resource activities might be integrated so as to
better advance the mission of the NIH. Our special task force laid
out a number of distinct alternatives for consideration by the Division
Director, his staff, and advisors but deliberately did not go beyond
that point, such as to advocate any particular strategy for the future.
Our task force report, however, will no doubt be the substrate of
continuing discussion within DRR and between DRR and its institutional
clientele, and my release from the task force places me in a more
appropriate position from here on out to pursue the specific interests
of Biotechnology Resources.

Over the coming months the staff and I will want to pursue the topic
of BRB's future in more depth with you. The continuing changes in

the scope, direction, and style of the national-biomedical research
effort suggest that a searching re-examination of the objectives and
strategies for developing and making available high class biotechnology
resources is much in order. Your ideas and critique, as always, will
be valued.

Sincerely yours,

Zs

William F. Raub, Ph.D.

Chief Sa
Biotechnology Resources Branch
Division of Research Resources