Dr. Eli

April 22, 1969

A. Rubinstein

Assistant Director for Extramural Programs
and Behavioral Sciences

National Institute of Mental Health

5454 Wisconsin Avenue

Chevy Chase, Maryland 20203

Dear Eli,

Dave Hamburg and I have been discussing some proposals that might
be of sufficient interest to NIMH to elicit your contract eupport. They

concern
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If
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our organizing a consultation activity in several areas of mutual
including:

the definition of research challenges in biological and
behavioral sciences for progress in mental health

the protection of individual liberty in the face of potentially
intrusive scientific knowledge and technique

the examination of pervasive environmental factore that may bear on
mental health

a study of the various ways in which basic and interdisciplinary
research can moat effectively be influenced to respond to social
requirements without prejudicing the quality of the overall program.

these items are of interest to you, we would welcome a visit fror
your colleagues to discuss these proposals in greater detail.

Sincerely yours,
Joshua Lederberg

Professor of Genetics

David Hamburg
Professor of Psychiatry