Box 4: Notes by Roberto Landazuri
Correspondence A-Z [alpha by correspondent] of Edward L. Alpen, Director, Donner
Laboratory/DonnerPavilion. Approximate date range 1975-1979.

| <- filing reference (correspondent/subject name) penciled-in here on most
documents. Mostitems are originals; many incoming items are attached to Alpen's
response.
Following A-Z files, somefiles on individual correspondents /subjects: DOE, Lead
Laboratory Assignments, Inquiries, Potchen [DOE]Committeesite visit, memos to group
leaders, etc., but comprehensiveness of someofthese is doubtful.
Contents of A-Z files include:
- correspondence and internal memoranda re: equipment, animals, patents, budgets,
donation funds/endowments, NIH grantprint review, travel requests, entertainment,
workspace, parking, security clearance, research plans/ proposals, recommendations,
inquiries (re: employment/internships/visitor appointments), and other administrative
matters. A few pieces relate to publications by Alpen or to Alpen's professional
affiliations (e.g. lists of potential Sustaining Associates of the American Physiological
Society), and there is some personal correspondence, mostly relative to Alpen’s 1975
appointmentas Director.
Possibly significant items:
- "Ball": Correspondence between Alpen and AnneP. Ball re: Human Urinary
Erythropoietin, evidently for use in cultures [see also "Dukes"for copies of this
correspondence].
- "Berry": Correspondence between Alpen, Fabrikant and RogerJ. Berry re: radiotherapy
for Berry's patient Miss Grove.

- "Box": Memo from Tobiasre: inviting Harold Box "to give Bevalac Seminar on the
effects of radiation on DNA.”
- "Budinger": Correspondencere: animal hyperthermia experiments (proposed). Internal
correspondencere: AB1545, which would regulate nuclear medicine technology [see also
"Cole" for more items on critical attitudes toward AB1545].
- "Budnitz": Memo "What Donnercan do for the oil shale business,” about Donner

capabilities for animal studies in mutogenesis/carcinogenesis.
- "Burr": DOEsite review visit 1/24/78: report.

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