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'1180& Sunrise Valley Drive,Rest'on, Virginia 22091 TOBACCO COUNCI L ANNOUNCES 12 NEW AWARDS, SIX RELATING TO SMOKING Twelve newawards,,including six directly related to effects of tobacco smoke on health, have been an- nounced by the Council for Tobacco Research, which is supported by the tobacco industry. The industry has been criticized for, first, not put- ting enough money into health researchi and, second, for not supporting enough research directly aimed at reducing the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. "Most of the tobacco industry's research money, what little of it there has been, goes into esoteric basic research that has almost no relationship to the health problems the industry has created," one NCI executive told The Cancer Newsletter. "It's only a to- ken effort, designed to hold up as an answer to the in- dustry's critics." A member of the National Cancer Advisory Board -_who heads a cancer research institution, when asked what significant findings have been reported through industry-supported research, answered "Not a God : damned thing!" A spokesman for the Council disputed the criti- cism. He admitted that in the first years of the Coun- cil's program, started in 19541, most of the investiga- tions were in basic research. "Now that we have built up a base of knowledge, and not just through our in- vestigations but all'the rest, we can proceed onto targeted research," the spokesman said. The Council claims that its project have resulted in more than 1,200 scientific publications since 1954. The Council has allocated more than S28' million to about 500 grantees and contractors in the 2C years - a little less than S 1.5 million a year, the present level of funding. The Council insists that there are "absolutely no strings" on the money it awards. Applications are re- viewed by a scientific advisory board headed, by Sheldon Sommers, Columbia. Robert Huebner, chief of NCI's viral carcinogenesis program, is a member of the board albng with Howard Advervont, former sci- entific editor of the Jourmal'of NCI1; Richard Bing, Univ. of Southern Caliifornia; William Gardner, Yale: Leon Jacobson, Univ. of Chicago; Averilll Liebow, Univ. of California at San, Diego; Henry Lynch, Creighton Univ.; Hans Meier, Jackson Laboratory; and John Wyatt, Univ. of Manitoba. ;,Lynch and Meier are among the 12 new grantees. Vol. 1 No. 26 ° Aug.2. 1974 © Copyright 1974 National Information Service Inc. Subscription $100 per year Tobacco Industry Announces 12 New Research Awards ....Page2 Recipients of the new grants, their institutions, and the titles of their research projects: . -loseplti Arcos, Tulane Univ:,, "Synergistic effects of polycyclic hydrocarbons and nitrosamines in pul- monary carcinogenesis. Potential repressors of meta- bolic activation of nitrosamines." - Albert Castro, Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute, Miami, "Nicotine and blood: detection by radio-immunoassay." - Allen Cohen, Univ. of California at San Francis- co, "The genetic defect in alpha-!-antitrypsin defi- cient patients." - William Fishman, Tufts Univ., "Cancer pheno- type profile which may presage bronchogenic can- cer." . - Henry Lynch, Creigltton Univ., "Part 1: Smoking history in families with low and high cancer inci- dence. Part II: Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase: cancer genetics." - R. G. Mason, Univ: of North Carolina, "Effects of nicotine on interactions of platelets and endo- thelial cells." . ' - Hans Meier, The Jackson Laboratory, "Transpla- cental effects of nitrosocompounds in inbred strains of mice and rabbits." - Dov Michaeli, Univ. of California at San Fran- cisco, "Effects of cigarette smoke on pulhnonary fi- broplasts and collagen and its relation to emphy- sema." - B. V. Rama Sastry, Vanderbilt Univ., "Influence of nicotine on the release of acetylcholine iri the hurnan~ placenta and its implications on the fetal growth." - Ronald Rasmussen, Univ. of California at' Sam Francisco, "Effect of cocarcinogens and tumor pro- p moters on DNA repair in mammalian cells susceptibleCJ to chemical transformation." - Nathan Sloane, Uhiv. of Tennessee, "Effect of benzo(a)pyrene and derivatives on mammalian lung cells." - George Weinbaum, Albert Einstein Medical Center, "Lung proteinase: antiproteinase balance and the effect of cigarette smoke on this interaction."

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