DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service

National Institutes of Health
Building 16 Room 208
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Phone : (301) 496-2091
Telefax : (301) 496-8496

September 19, 1991

Dr. Harold Varmus
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California
San Francisco CA 94143

Dear Harold,

   Thank you very much for your agreement to be of help in the
project of restructuring the NIH Office of Scientific Integrity
(OSI), in order to try restore public confidence in the integrity
of biomedical science.
what I have in mind.

I am enclosing a brief description of

    If possible, I would like to hold a one-day pre-workshop
planning meeting late in October, to be devoted to a preliminary
discussion of the issues, as well as to working  out an agenda
for the first workshop to be held sometime in November. The OS1
will reimburse participants in the planning meeting for their
travel expenses to Bethesda, but cannot pay any honoraria.

back in Bethesda on Monday,  October 7.
after my return.

I am leaving on a trip to Europe this weekend and will be
                     I will contact you soon

Meanwhile I remain with best wishes,

Your

Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence;
Professor and Chairman,
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley