STATE UNIVERSITY

OF NEW YORK

DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER

450 CLARKSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11203
AREA CODE 212 270.1000

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Department of Surgery
Division of Neurosurgery

April 6, 1969

Dr. Edward F. MacYichol, Jr.
Director
National Institute of Neurological
Diseases & Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Dear Dr. MacNichol,

   I read with intense Interest your address to the
program directors's workshop for neurosurglcal training
held In Denver Colorado, Jan. 22-24, 1969, I agree
that there is need for neurosurgeons who are better
versed In the basic -.research areas. My increasing
frustration in clinical neurosurgery specifically,
the treatment of malignant brain tumors, goads me
to assume increasing interest in the more basic areas
I.e. molecular biology where,hopefully, one may find
the ~~~n~to~~-lncreasingly frustrating problem.
It has reached the point that I am willing to spend
2 or more years as some kind of a fellow In order
to delve into the problem in depth. I womder if I
cou Id g&some advice from you in this regard specially
the where, how and what in terms of fellowship
application.  I am a board-certified neurosurgeon
holding a full time academic appointment at the above
institution. I have had 1 l/2 yeard research experience
In neuropathology with some electronmicroscopy and
for the past X l/2 years,have spent almost full time
working in the laboratory of micro-neurochemistry,
I have In mind working with either Dr. Francis Crick
or Dr. James Watson, the former in Cambridge, I
would appreciate your &pinion regarding the matter.
Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely y9ys,
L&L.&+  ,.<-',,-.z-,,
William Cuatico, M.D., FACS
Assistant Profeseor

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE o SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. COLLEGE OF NURSING . COLLEGE OF HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIONS


Watson has recently become interested in oncogenic
viruses so this would be good.  Sidney Brenner
rather than Francis Crick is working on the nervous
system in Cambridge, Bob Spiegelman will be moving
to Columbia in July and is interested primarily in
the cancer problem.  Probably Watson and Spiegelman's
interests are closest to Cuatico's.