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Dr. Makela is requesting an extension of her fellowshino for an additional |

 

five months beyond the stated term of one year for the original fellowship. I wouli this
application my warmest endogzrsement. As you know, Dr. Makela's opportunity for study

in the United States is connected with the fellowshin awarded to her husband as a foreign
fellows of the National Institutes of Health of the US Publie Health Service. I velieve
she should make the best of her opportunity in the US; her ITE fellowship would make

it financially possible for her to continue her studies full time eaxkkervowkkk by usins
the funds for child care at home.

Dr. Makela is studying and continuing her research in my department ‘n the field of
the genetics of bacteria. Her previous training was in bacteriology and immunology, and
was technically quite competent in those fields, However, bacterial cenetics is a weak
relatively new, b&t quite important, aspect of biology and medical research, and as far as
I know is not now revresented at all in Finland, only to a limigfed extent elsewhere in
Seandinavia, though it has had important development in Britain, France, Italy, Japane
and the US. She therefore has the responsibility and opportunity of bringing back to
Finland a rather unique type of training, which may De of some importance in the further
training of Finnish students and researchers,

Her own performance in the laboratory has been exemplary, especially in view of the
very sparse level of her previous training in genetics. She has quickly grasped the
essentials of her problem, and 1s doing creative work in it¢ already. However, she still
has much to learn and will profit considerably, in the sophistication of her thinking and
her work, by the prolongation of her stay. She could not have substantiated such a
recommendation without a very high order of native ability, of industrious application,
and of insight into her problems, and recognition of subbleties in exoerimental work, which
axexakt warrant unusual distinction in the disposition of her application.

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics