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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 10

b. $3,300 to the Department of Medicine for a study of the effect of the spleen on anti-erythrocytic auto-antibody formation, under the direction of Dr. Louis R. Limarzi. 180. Jack Holtzman Memorial Cancer Fund, $1,303 for research studies on brain tumors, under the direction of Drs. Percival Bailey and Arthur Arnold, Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery. 181. W . K. Kellogg Foundation, $20,000 to the College of Dentistry for the extension postgraduate teaching program by telephone and television. 182. Lakeland Foundation, Chicago, $7,764 to the Department of Clinical Science for a study to attempt to isolate growth stimulating and inhibiting agents from the liver or intestinal mucosa, under the direction of Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, for the period January 1, 1954, through October 31, 1954. 183. T h e National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, $31,376 to the Department of Public Health for laboratory studies in connection with field studies of poliomyelitis vaccine, under the direction of Dr. Howard J. Sliaughnessy, for the period September I, 1954, through June 30, 1955. 184. National Foundation for Medical Education, Inc., $34,766 to the College of Medicine for educational programs ($3,141 of this having been contributed by individual physicians). 185. National Golf Foundation, Chicago, $1,000 for a comprehensive study of the natural history of annual bluegrass, chickweed, and crabgrass, under the direction of Dr. Ralph F. Voight, Director of the Drug and Horticultural Experiment Station. 186. National Vitamin Foundation, $3,600 to the Department of Medicine for a study of carnitine (Vitamin B T ) levels in the blood, urine, and skeletal muscle of healthy individuals and in patients suffering from nutritional disease, under the direction of Dr. Robert M. Kark, for one year beginning July 1, I954187. The Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, $4,000 for the purchase of a special high voltage portable X-ray unit to be used by the Neuropsychiatric Institute. 188. American Heart Association, New York City, $5,250 to the Department of Physiology for a study of the pathogenesis and treatment of experimental renal hypertension, neurogenic hypertension, and experimental malignant hypertension, under the direction of Dr. George E. Wakerlin, for one year beginning July 1, 1953. 189. American Cancer Society, Inc., New York City: a. $5,906.25 to the Department of Anatomy for research on therapy of mouse leukemia, cellular and host factors in refractoriness to chemotherapeutic agents, under the direction of Dr. Arthur Kirschbaum, for the period July 1, 1953, through September I, 1954. b. $6,000.to the Department of Pathology for a study of the changes in the connective tissue stroma of the cyclic organs of reproduction as influenced by hormones, under the direction of Dr. Hubert R. Catchpole, for one year beginning July I, 1953. c. $7,117.40 to the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery for a study of the effects of fractionated high energy (23 mev) radiations on the central nervous system of the Macaque monkey, under the direction of Dr. A r t h u r Arnold. d. $6,170 to the Department of Radiology for a localization study of alphahydroxy-phenazine and related substances by means of radioactive tracers, under the direction of Dr. Walter S. Moos. 190. American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, New York City, $825 to the Department of Medicine for a study of physiological adjustments of human beings to sudden changes in atmospheric environment, under the direction of Dr. Ford K. Hick. 191. Asthmatic Children's Aid, Chicago: a. $5,000 to the Department of Medicine for a study of allergy antigens, under the direction of Dr. Max Samter, for a period of one year from July 1, 1954. b. $1,000 to the Department of Medicine for studies in the Histochemical Research Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Ben Z. Rappaport, for one year from July 1, 1954-