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Dr. William Chin: Not quite. I had not heard anything from Dr. Coatney, so I assumed he wasn’t interested. A little more than a year into my Peace Corps assignment, I knew that I wanted to stay overseas and continue working and learning. I also knew that at that time there was a cholera research laboratory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was part of a SEATO
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Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. |
1-sponsored activity and headed by, of all people, Colonel Bud Benenson, my boss from my army days in Puerto Rico.
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I worked with Dr. Contacos for a few months. (I was living in the outskirts of Atlanta in Chamblee and the penitentiary was maybe 10 miles away.) Dr. Contacos then left for Pakistan to locate a trial site. He started in Lahore, Pakistan, and he worked with a group of people from the University of Maryland. They had a research group in Lahore. The ICMRT -- International Center for Medical Research and Training
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for Medical Research and Training
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2 -- he worked out of there. They were helping him locate a research site and helping him with technical assistance.
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