: SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305

JOSHUA LEDERBERG February 13, 1978
JosSEPH D. GRanT PROFESSOR
OF GENETICS

Dr. H.F. Robinson

Office of the Chancellor
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723

Dear Dr. Robinson:

Thank you for your good wishes. I am a bit surprised to see how
little genetics (at least in higher organisms!) is represented

at Rockefeller University and I am certainly eager to remain in
touch with my parent discipline. Certianly the pressures on
world food supply and human nutrition which are beginning to be
recognized as the scientific challenge of the next century are
enought reason to want to sustain this perspective even at an
institution primarily directed to health research. I will also
be looking for ways in which a sharper policy perspective can

be encouraged among our younger faculty without, one hopes, inter-
fering with their scientific development. If you have any thoughts
about the best means to do that I would find it most welcome.

Yours sincerely,

JL: ek-f

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