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: TOBACCO I1VDUSTRY RESEARCkI CONfIT1EEE ','FOR REIEASE: Thursday, September 1, 1960 NEW GRANTS TO SCTENTISTS MADE BY TOBACCO RESEARCH GROUP :scientists so far in 1960 by the Tobacco Industry Research Committee., . was announced today by Chairman Timothy V. Hartnett. . . . ,...,. : . ..._ .g . . . .. ___ .. . _ - ,.__.._ . _. . . _.. ... .. ._ . . - .. . .. ._~_.,_.__. . . _ ..........,__.. _ and tobacco smoke, environmental factors and pu1'~monary disease coronary artery disease, psychological differences between smokers and ~ non-smokers, characteristics of aromatic hydrocarbons, effect of tobacco derivatives on arterial and myocardial tissue cultures., role of the nucleolus in normal and malignant cells, and the effect of negatively charged ions on human tracheo-bronchial ciliary action. The projects include work in such subjects as possible interaction All grants are made by the Scientific Advisory Board, composed of nine doctors, scientists and educators who retain their institutional affiliations. Chairman of the Board is Dr. Kenneth Merrill Lynch, Chancellor of the Medical College of'South~Carolina, Charleston. papers on their investigations, he said'. TIRC has so far appropriated f.i mid-1951+, and recipients have already published more than 120 research Mr. Hartnett said 20 of the 1960 grants were new and 20 were for continuation of work under way. Grants-in-aid by the Scientific Advisory Poard to the TIRC have been made to over 100 independent scientists since $3,700,000 for its continuing research program. Attached'is a list of recipients of new grants so far in 1960, their institutions and the titles of their projects.

Recipients of new grants from the Tobacco Industry Research Committee in .1960, their institutions, and titles of their projects: RALPH S. BECKER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston, Texas. "An Investiaation of the SDectral and Chromatn-``.: grapnic unaraczerismics o2' Aromatic hydrocarbons." RICHARD J. BING, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Wayne TOM G. BOWERY, Ph.D., Pesticide Residue Laboratory, Chemistry Department, ~ . , . . _ .- RICHARD U. BYERRJM, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University,- State University College of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan. "The Effect of Smoking on Coronary Blood Flow in Patients with, Arterio- sclerotic Heart Disease," and "The Effect of Nicotine on Storage of Amines in Heart Muscle." in Cigarette Smoke." North Carolina State College, Raleigh. "Endrin Residue Components East Lansing. "Biosynthesis of the Pyridine Ring of Nicotine." SISTER M. EMILY CAHILL, Ph.D., Chairman, Chemistry Department, Regis Among Italian-American Men." Boston, Massachusetts. "Body Form, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption College, Weston, Massachusetts. "The Percent Recovery of Arsenic Added'at Kno4m~Levels to Tobacco Samples and a Broad'Survey of the Amount of Arsenic Present in Tobacco Samples from a Wide Variety of Sources." ALBERT DAMON, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Industrial Hygiene, Harvard School of Public Health, "The Effects of Tobacco Smoke Condensate on the Defense Mechanisms of the Rat in Detoxification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and the Competitive Inhibition Between the Polycyclic Hydrocarbons HANS'L. FALK, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 'th Regard to C:.rcinogenesis."' HARVEY B. HAAG, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Medical College of Surgical Research,College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston. "The Relationship of the Use of Tobacco Products to the Outcome of Pregnancy." JULIUS H. JACOBSON II, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of Virginiay Riichmond. Publication of a book to be entitled, "Tobacco: " Experimental and Clinical Studies; A Comprehensive Account of the World Literature." LA1dREN!CE L. HESTER, JR., M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Ob-Gyn, Burlington. "Lung Homotransplantation."

.Surgery, University of California ."''he Action of Negatively Charged 'Action in the Human Patient." of Surgery, Department of School of Medicine, San Francisco. Ions of Tracheo-Bronchial Ciliary ,CARL C. SEL=, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Anthropology, Harvard University, ROBERT H. LINNELLy Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington. "The Autoxidation of Nicotine." ,,, , fi a. . ,14rti 8~1r.•t 4 CHRISTOPHER M. MARTIN, M.D.,`Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, ; Div~sion of Infectious Diseases, Seton Hall College of Medicine, . J. ,... Jersey City, New Jersey. "'Interactions of Viruses and Substances Tobacco Smoke Condensate." FORDE A. McIVER, M.D.,'Assistant Professor in Pathology, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston. "Environmental Factors and Pulmonary Disease. I. Asbestos Dust."' , C VICTOR A. McHI,TSICK, M.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Chief, University of Texas, Southuestern Medical School, Dallas. "The Investigation of the Role of the Nucleolus in• the Normal and the Malignant Cell." ` QTAKAR J. POLLAK, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director, Dover Medical Research Center, Inc., Dover, Delaware. "Effect of Tobacco Derivatives H.R. PRATT-TIiOMAS, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Medical College of on Arterial and Myocardial Tissue Cultures." South Carolina, Charleston. "Carcinogenesis in the Laboratory Animal: A Comparison of Species Response to Standardized Sites of ApplIcation. "' BENSON B. ROE, M.D., Associate Professor Division of Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. "A Combined Genetic, Physiologic, Clinical and Epidemiologic Study of Buerger's Disease." 0'B. MONTGOMERY, JR., M.D., Associate,grofessor of Pathology, The Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Harvard-Johns Hopkins Study of Body Form with Smoking, Precursors of Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease." CAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, M.D., Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. a. "Completion of Studies on Smoker-Nonsmoker Differences Among Johns Hopkins Blood Bank Donors," b. "Continuation of Studies on Psychological Smoker-Nonsmoker Differences among Johns Hopkins Medical Students," c. "Continuation of Studies on the Ballistocardiographic Smoking Test."