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juvenile 
Diabetes 
Foundation 
23 East 26th Street 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
• New York. New York 10010 • (212)889 -7575 
August 14th, 1978 
Dr. Donald Fredrickson 
Director 
National Institutes of Health 
Room 124 , NIri 1 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Dr. Fredrickson: 
The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is composed of primarily 
diabetics and their families. We are not research scientists 
and, thus, must rely on the advice of distinguished individuals 
including our own medical science advisory board for their judgment 
on such Issues. 
However, we are, I believe informed and intelligent consumers. 
From this vantage point, I would like to express our opinions 
regarding DNA research and diabetes. 
We are strongly in favor of recombinant DMA research in 
the area of diabetes. We are also seriously concerned because 
we believe that there exists a lack of adequate facilities 
available to pursue this research as fast as it could be pursued 
given the current scientific knowledge and capabilities. 
For the above mentioned reasons, I want you to know that the 
Juvenile DtiaucteS Foundation her? on i-or’nrd time after tine 
after time with Appropriations Committees in the House and 
the Senate to request additional funding for scientific opportunities 
in diabetes research. It is our hope that you as the head of 
NIH will see that an appropriate segment of these monies will 
be spent on this type of research. In addition, I hope you will 
let me know so that I can inform our constituency (more than 
100 chapters and hundreds of thousands of individuals) what 
further opportunities exists in the area of recombinant DNA research 
and diabetes that are "approved but unfunded" because of lack of 
appropriations . 
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The JDF is a tax exempt, non-profit organization. 
