Correspondence. Surnames, 'Tobert' to 'Yudkin'

File consists of correspondence with people who have surnames from Tobert to Yudkin, related to the seminar on, "Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the U.K., 1950-2000", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 8 March 2005. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 27 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the U.K., 1950-2000, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2006).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Michael Oliver), organisers of the meeting (Professor Michael Oliver and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants. Documents include; notes and a summary script for, "The Search: A Film Review of Research on Diet and Coronoary Heart Disease" provided by Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe.

Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; Dr Jonathan Tobert who provided a copy of his article, "Lovastatin and Beyond: The History of the HMG-COA Reductase Inhibitors", Nature Reviews, vol.2, July 2003; Professor Nicholas Wald (apologies); Professor Kenneth Walton (apologies); Dr Geoff Watts; Kate Weiner; Professor Peter Weissberg (apologies); and Catherine Will.

2004-2006

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The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.