| Administrative History | 'Dr. Candace B. Pert was awarded her Ph.D. in pharmacology, with distinction, in 1974, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pert conducted a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974 - 1975. |
| Description | Correspondence relates to the sending of preprints, reprints and other papers to one another, and Kosterlitz's and Candace's respective work and research. Also relates to Kosterlitz and his wife's [Hanna] intended visit to Washington D.C.
Letter, dated 20 August 1976, from Pert to Kosterlitz, mentions Pert's visit to Aberdeen.
Letter, dated 26 April 1977, from Pert to Kosterlitz, mentions Pert coming down with 'probable viral pneumonia' on her way back from Britain. Letter also sends some scientific samples to Kosterlitz.
Letter, dated 28 September 1978, from Candace [and David Rodbard, National Institute of Child Health and Development, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch], to Kosterlitz, explaining why they are pulling out of a meeting, 'the Receptor Symposium, set to be in Rome, 1979, which they were intially chosen to organise.
Letters, dated September - October 1978, relate to Candace's 'congrats' to Kosterlitz.
There are a number of gaps in the correspondence: between October 1976 and April 1977; between May 1977 and September 1978; October 1978 and July 1979, and July 1979 and December 1980. |