Jas 18 1965

Dr. Kazutamni Kiyota
Denartment of Meurovsychiatry
Kumamoto University
School of Medicine
Honjo-machi 487,
Kumamoto, Japan
January 12, 1965
Professor Joshua Lederberg
Devartment of Genetics
Stanford University

Dear Professor Lederberg:

It has been long since I wrote to you last and heard of the
research program in the Research Center of Molecular Medicine,
which would be helt in 1965.

If you would be kind enough to let me know how the planning
or your research activities about nervous »roteins in connection
with mental retardation is zetting along, I would anvreciate it.

In Janan there is no medical research institute for mental
retardation, but there are some classes for mentally retarded
children in the educational system. So, we are now laying a vlan
for the foundation of the research institute for mental retar-
dation in Kumamoto University. One of our planners, Professor
Toshiro Murata, is now workins with Professor J. H. Quastel in.
Montreal, Canada,

I believe that you are supreme among those who are interested
in the introduction of molecular biology into the field of Neuro-
osychiatry, and that your farsighted advice and sussestions will
ereatly help us to encourage and further our research activities.

I still have a desire to learn advanced techhiques and ideas
in your laboratory. If tnere is no research nosition for me in
your institute, would you please introduce me to any other

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laboratory which seems to suit with my research interest ?
I vould sreatly avvreciate it if you would do me a favor,
Honing to hear from you in the near future.

Yours sincerely

(ep ele ge

( Kazutami Kiyota, vi. D.
Assistant Professor
Devartnent of Neuropsychiatry