YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN - CONNECTICUT

DEPARTMENT OP BIOCHEMISTRY

STERLING HALL. OF MEDICINE
   333 CEDAR SI'RHBT

21 October 1955

Dr, Leon A. Heppel
National Institutes of Health
United States Public Health Service
Bethesda, Maryland

Dear Dr. Heppel,

At the present time I am a graduate student in the

Biochemistry Department at Yale University and expect to complete
the work for the Ph, D, degree by September 1956, Dr, Joseph Fruton,

my thesis director, suggested that I write to you concerning the

possibility of spending a year in your laboratory as a post-doctordl

fellow, I plan to apply to the National Science Foundation and the

United States Public Health Service for a post-doctoral fellowship

for the year 1956-57 and believe that the year would contribute

greatly to my training if I could spend it working under your direction,

I must explain that my own presence in the Washington

area depends on my husband's success in obtaining a desired position,
We will not know definitely about that until kch or April of 1956,

and I wanted you to be aware of this situation in considering w

application ,

My thesis problem is to study the enzyme phosphoamidase in beef

spleen and thus far the work has included the preparation of syh%Wtic

substrates, enzyme purification and the study of the properties of

the partially purified preparation.

$uring the first week of December I will be in Warshington

and 1 could come and talk with you if that is convenient. If you would

like a rem of my qualifications and education I would be happy to

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