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Joshua Lederberg
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR-emeritus

December 17, 2003
Dear Bill

Responding to yours of
13 November 03

<<< You wrote:

I am approaching your name in my writing on contributions to medical science by
scholars after age 65. Could you give me the principal titles of your writing and research
labors after 1990, please, as well as your recent personal writings on behalf of sound social
policies, please.
>>>

I am not sure I qualify: I’ve not made any really important scientific contributions since I left
Stanford in 1978, at age 53. I am proud of the studies ve chaired, and the books thence
edited, on issues of emerging infectious disease and defense against biowarfare. So I hope
the enclosed listings will be intelligible to you.

All best wishes for this and next year, and I hope you sail through the dermatological repairs
you'll be enduring next week,

Yours,
| 140 ¢ Professor Joshua Lederberg

The Rockefeller Universi
1230 York Ave. mversity

New York, N.Y 10021-6399

npr 17 2004
Dear Bill

My publigcations from 1990 on. No research blockbusters.
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These are the most important IOkM study reports that I co-chaired:
a :

242 JL , RE Shope, and SC Oaks, eds. 1992
Emerging Infections. Microbial threats to health in the United States.
National Academy Press. released 10/15/92 IOM study

posted on www.nas.edu web site

340*R* Mark S. Smolinski, Margaret A. Hamburg & Joshua Lederberg, eds.
Microbial threats to health: Emergence, Detection and Response
Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2003
http://books.nap.edu/books/030908864X/html/245.html

and I edited this important book:

"Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat" MIT Press 1999
301f new edition? 2002

291 JL (Ed. in chief). Encyclopedia of Microbiology. 4 vols.
Academic Press San Diego 1992; 2’d Ed. 2000