Dear Dr. Merchant,
            I am sending you best wishes for success for hope 2000, an International Conference on Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS. We all must work very hard, on every level, to free mankind of these scourges.

Professor GUENTER BLOBEL,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
1230 York Avenue New York,
N.Y. 10021,
USA
1999 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localisation in the cell.