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Yes, it simplifies the process for them.

We supported Li in 1954 with $60,000 to supply equipment to produce two pituitary hormones which his group isolated some time ago. They were growth hormone and the lactogenic hormone. So far as I know, not even lactogenic hommone is produced inany commercial quantity as yet, but he still is a productive worker. He's in an area where very few people are brilliant enough to follow.

Would it not be useful if he were elsewhere then, here he could have closer disciples?

Well, he's now thinking about spending some time in Boston each year at the Childrens Cancer Research Foundation.

What's the determining factor for his present location?

Well, he has a great deal of status at the University of California, and although he's a full professor he's not required to do any teaching in a formal way: he trains workers in his laboratory.