To the editors:

I enjoyed your recent article on the testosterone study we are currently conducting in partnership with the Men's Varsity Crew team ("The Beef on Crew's Raging Hormones," April 3). However, the article placed an inordinate amount of emphasis on myself.

Although I have been intimately involved with this investigation since its inception, the study involves the entire male team of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit (REU) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, including Drs. William F. Crowley, Jr. (Unit Chief), Frances Hayes and Stephanie Seminara, as well as Suzzunne DeCruz.

Indeed, Dr. Crowley first approached me with the idea to pursue this project back in the summer of 1997. I appreciate your interest and careful reporting of our investigation. But I wish to make it clear that this is very much a team effort and that my involvement, although intimate, it nevertheless one facet of a collaborate effort of many at the REU. RICHARD G. BRIBIESCAS, PH.D.   Boston, April 6, 1998