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OW eonard qahn PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNSEL andAssociales,lnc. P. o. BOX 523 • 13 LINCOLN ROAD • GREAT NECK;,N.Y. 11021 •(2d2) 895-7445~ FOR: THE COUNCIL FOR TOBACCO RESEARCH-U.S.A., Inc. FOR RELEASE AM'S OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1976 14 NEW STUDIES FUNDED BY TOBACCO RESEARCH COUNCIL New York -- Fourteen new scientific studies dealing with various aspects of smoking and health were announced today by the Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A.,, Inc. Among them are projects on the inhibition of cancer by different chemicals, the influence of nicotine on pregnancy and the effects of cigarette smoke on the body's disease- fighting system. Since its formationlin 1954, the Council has provided over $'3'5,000,000 for smoking and health research. More than 520 original grants andicontracts, plus numerous renewals, have been approved for independent scientists in some 230 medical schools, hospitals and research institutions. A total of 1,340 articles describing,findings from Council-supported projects has appeared so far in medical and scientific publications. Grants are made by the Council following,a review of applications for research support by a Scientific Advisory Board currently consisting of 11 physiciansand scientists. The Council does not operate any research facility. It provides funds for independent scientists who conduct their studies in their own institutions and are responsible for disclosing the results in the accepted scientific manner. -0- (Attached is a list of the scientists who received the new grants, their institutions and their project titles.) Y

( 2. Recipients of new grants,, their institutions and the titles of their research-projects: A. SONIA BUIST, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Oregon School of Medicine, Portland. "The role of alpha-one antitrypsin deficiency as a risk factor in the development of chronic airways obstruction." HUGH E. EVANS, M.D., Director, Department of Pediatrics, Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, N'.Y. "Relationship of non- MM phenotypes and lung disease among infants." GAD FEINSTEIN, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Center of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel. "Studies on peptide bond specificities, active site and inhibition of human leucocyte proteases which are implicated in the pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema." LARS FRIBERG, M.D., Professor of Environmental Hygiene, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. "Causes of death in re- lation to smoking habits and other behavioral and environmental factors. A study on the Swedish twin registry." HERBERT B. HERSCOWITZ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Micro- biology, Georgetown University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Washington, D.C. "Effects of cigarette smoke exposure on de- velopmental, cellular and molecular aspects of the immune response." STIG KULLMAN, M.D., Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden. "Influence of smok- ing on human fetal growth and post-natal development and on fib- rinolysin in the blood of pregnant women. Accumulation and/or damage to human placental and fetal lung tissues of nicotine." JOSEPH M. LAUWERYN'S, M.D., Ph..D., Professor Ordinarius in Microscopic Anatomy and Pathology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. "The neuro-epithelial bodies: their role and structure as intrapulmonary neuro (chemo) receptors in normal and various physiological, pharmacological and pathological conditions." HERBERT McKENNIS, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. "Transport and metabolism of amine constituents of cigarette smoke." CARL W. PIERCE, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. "Biology of suppressor T cells." IRENE Y. WANG, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. "Genetic differences in the in C vitro metabolism of chemical carcinogens by human and mouse tis- w sues." ~ ~ N C11 . C~ N

r 3- LEE W. WATTENBERG, M.D.,, Professor of Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. "Inhibition of car- cinogenesis by benzyl isothiocyanate and related compounds." JAMES A. WILL, DVM, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Depart- ment of Veterinary Science,, "Morphologic and functional the lung." University of Wisconsin,, Madison. correlations of the APUD cells of EMIL R. UNANUE, M.D., Department School, Boston. "Physiopathology of phages."' of Pathology, Harvard Medical normal and activated macro- KOHI YOSHINAGA, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. "Effects of nicotine on preg- nancy."