Mayo Clinic
[Letter requesting funding in support of American Health Foundation's Division of Epidemiology]
Abstract
Requests funds in the amount of $50,000.00 per year for five years to support activities of American Health Foundation's Division of Epidemiology. Offers brief summary of epidemiological activities of the Division: "focuses on the investigation of the relationship between lifestyle and environmental exposures to cancer and other major chronic illnesses, chiefly cancer and heart disease." Encloses copy of annual report [missing]. AHF letterhead includes names and affiliation of Board of Trustee members.
Fields
- Type
- Letter
- Company
- Philip Morris
- Site
- MN Depository
- Author
- Klarberg, Richard B.
- Recipient
- McVicker, Robert G. (Senior Vice President of Technology)1991
1993 First scientist to report in 1950 on the carginocencity of cigarettes in rats painted with tar. Assistant at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Directed the American Health Foundation (AHF) from 1984 to his death in 1998.
1993 American Health Foundation - Directed by the late Dr. Ernst Wynder. Took funds from PM and Kraft for research relating to dietary and lifestyle causes of lung cancer.
A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994
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