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[ ard ' PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNSEL FOR': THE' COUNCIL FOR'TOBACCO RESEARCH-U.S.A., Iinc. FOR RELEASE'TUESDAY, JULY 23,, 1974 ndAssaeP. 0. BOX 523 • 13 LINCOLN ROAD • GREAT NECK„N.Y: 11021 •(212) 895-7445 M c-r~?, 'Q ESE PCW M TOBACCO RESEARCH GROUP ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIES New York -- The role of genetic factors in lung cancer and emphysema andithe possible influence of nicotine on fetal growth are among 12 new scientific studies that have just been funded,, The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc. announced today. The new awards bring to about 500 the number of original grants and contracts supported by The Council since 1954• The total research alilocation to date;is over $28', 000, 000. The projects are a continuation of The Council's programy now in its 21st year, to obtain scientific information related to smoking and health. The Council makes awards after applileations for research support are reviewed by a Scientific Advisory Board currently consisting of 10 di~stinguishediphysicians and scientists. . The Council, organized by tobacco manufacturers, growers and warehousemen, does not operate any research facility. It provides funds for research by independent sci,ent'ists who con- duct their studi~es in their own medical schools, hospitals and laboratories. Findings from Councili-supported projects have been reported so far in more than 1200 articles in medical and scientific pub- lications. -0- (Attached is a list of the scientists who received the new grants, their institutions, and their project titles.)

_. C C Recipients of new grants, their institut'ions,, and the titles of their research projects: JOSEPH C. ARCOS, D_Se.,, Professor of Medicine, Tulane University School, of Medicine, New Orlieans. "Synergistic effects of polycycli~e hydrocarbons and nitrosamines in pulmonary carcinogenesis. Potential repressors of metabolic activation of nitrosamines." ALBERT CASTRO, Ph.D., Senior Scientilst„ Papanicolaou Cancer Re- search Institute, Miami,. "Nicotine and:blood: detection by radio- immunoassay.11 , 2. ALLEN B. COHEN, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant',Professor of Medicine in Residence, School of Medicine,, Universit y of California,, San Francisco. "The genetic defect in alpha-1-antitrypsin deficient patients."' WILLIAM H..FISHMAN, Ph.D.,, Director, Tufts Cancer Research Center, Tufts Uni~versity,, Boston. "Cancer phenotype profile which may presage bronchogenic cancer." HENRY T. LYNCH, M.D.,, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pre- ventive Medicine and Publ!ic Health, School of Medi.cine,, Creighton University, Omaha. "Part I: Smoking hi~story in families with low and high cancer incidence. Part II: Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase: cancer genetics." R.G. MASON, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of'North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Effects of ni.cotine on intersctions,of platellets and endothelial cells." HANS ME'IER, D.V.M., Senior Staff Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory,. Bar Harbor,, Me. "Transpliacental effects of nitrosocompounds in inbre& strains of mice and rabbits." DOV MICHAELI, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Sur- gery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francilsco. "Effect of cigarette smoke on pulmonary fibroblasts and collagen and its relation to emphysema." B.V. RAMA SASTRY, D.Sc., Ph.D.,, Professor of Pharmacology, Vander- bilt University School of Medicine, NashvilLe, Tenn. "Influence of nicotine on the release of acetylcholine in the:human placenta and its implications on the fetal growth."' RONALD E. RASMUSSEN, Ph.D., Assistant Research Physiologist, Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. "Effect of cocarcinogens and tumor promoters on DNA repair in mammaLilan cells ~ susceptible to chemical transformation." NATHAN H!. SLOANE, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Medical! Units, Memphis. "Effect of benzo(a)pyrene and de- rivatives on mammalian lung cells." GEORGE WEINBAUM, Ph.D., Pulmonary Disease Section, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia. "Lung proteinase: antiproteinase balance ~ and the effect of'cigarette smoke on this int'eraction." ~ ~ ~ ~ ..-.~:

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