College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University | New York, N.Y. 10032

INTERNATIONAL, INSTITUTE 630 West 168th Street
FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION
Center for Reproductive Sciences

December 9, 1994

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10021

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We, in the Center for Reproductive Sciences, are very enthusiastic about the convening of our
Advisory Board to obtain your advice and counsel on scientific trends and policies for 1995. Though we
have existed as an entirety at Columbia P&S for many years, we have never had the benefits of a high
level external advisory body to guide us, hence our great sense of anticipation.

The item at hand is establishing a date when all members would be available for a half-day
meeting. For very practical reasons- resubmission of our Specialized Population Research Award,
changes in leadership of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the presence of Dr. Spies from
Oregon at NIH that week: we have selected either Thursday, February 9 (AM or PM) or Friday
February 10 (AM or PM) as reasonable dates for this meeting. Would you kindly consider these and
Contact me by phone (212-305-6337), Fax (212-305-3869) or letter as to your availability?
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O We are extremely grateful to you for your participation in our Board and look forward with
| pleasure to an animated, but practical, scholarly discussion. Though the future of biomedical research

Xu looks quite grim right now, we feel we must simply put superhuman effort into continuing the work of
° the Center for Reproductive Sciences in clinical and basic research.

Warmest personal regards. 12. | iy Let ~

Yours sincerely,
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Georgiana M. Jagiello, M.D., D.Sc.

Virgil Damon Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
and of Genetics and Development

Director, Center for Reproductive Sciences
Director, Assisted Reproduction Division (CPMC)
Vice Chairman for Research Affairs of the
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

c.c. Dr. Sheldon J. Segal
Dr. Hugh R.K. Barber
Dr. Harold Spies
Dr. Henry C. Frick

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