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January 15, 1971 
Dr» Theodore H. Bullock 
R/V ALPHA HELIX PROGRAM 
Scripps Institution of Oceanography 
Post Office Box 109 
La Jolla, California 92307 
Dear Dr. Bullock: 
There are two specific projects which we would be able to execute with the 
aid of the ALPHA HELIX in 1972 and which without the aid of the ship we could 
not manage. In both cases they include equipping the ship for handling tissue 
cultures from small skin biopsies and skin lesions in explant culture, in a 
tissue culture laboratory I believe we could establish on the ship. Leucocyte 
culture, as well, would be performed and if the laboratory facility permitted we 
would also be prepared to carry equipment for electromyography and 
electroencephalography and other physiological studies. 
Preliminary laboratory processing of specimens which could not otherwise be 
collected would also be carried out. The studies envisaged are a continuation 
of our long-term human biology studies on isolated populations, with specific 
interest in certain disease syndromes on which we have been working. The 
following personnel for staffing the laboratory would be chosen from my own 
laboratory and those of my colleagues, depending on the current status of our 
work at the time and the availability then of these people; 
C.J. Gibbs, Jr., Ph.D., NIH, Bethesda, Md.: virologist and 
microbiologist 
Miss Nancy Rogers, NIH: virologist and tissue culture expert 
Mint Basnight, 
Paul Brown, M.D., " internist 
Michael Alpers, M.D., University of Western Australia, Perth: 
epidemiologist and human biologist 
Malcolm Simons, M.D., University of Singapore, Department of 
Bacteriology: immunologist 
Raymond Roos, M.D., NIH: neurologist 
Larry Frye, Ph.D., NIH, molecular microbiologist and immunologist 
Richard Ferber, M.D., Boston Children’s Medical Center: pediatrician 
and psychologist 
David Asher, M.D., NIH: pediatrician and virologist 
John Hooks, Ph.D., NIH: microbiologist 
Judith Meyer, NIH: cinematologist-ethnographer 
Richard Sorenson, NIH: anthropologist, behavioral scientist 
Michael Nicholson, NIH: radio telemetry expert, physiological 
telemetry 
Ralph Garruto, Ph.D., NIH; physical anthropologist, physiologist 
Barry Adels, M.D., Harvard Medical School: pediatrician, 
microbiologist 
David Lang, M.D., Duke University School of Medicine: 
virologist-immunologist , pediatrician 
