Seven doctors and scientists— five of them from New Orleans —have been awarded grants totaling $7107 by the Louisiana division, American Cancer Society.
All seven of the men are working on projects that will lead to greater knowledge and, it is hoped, eventual conquest of cancer.
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MRS. W.'J. Richard, president of the Louisiana division of the society, announced that the following would'receive, grants:
Dr. Robert Cl Gos's, Loyola university, $700. .'■
Jack, H. Stocker, Louisiana State university in New Orleans, $1426; - - •
Dr.* Merle Mizell, Tulane university, $1200.
Dr. Robert F. Ryan, Tulane, $500.
Dr. J. 0. Shaver, Tulane, $925.
Dr. Richard W. Traxler, Southwestern Louisiana institute, $1230.
Dr. W. L. Flannery, Southwestern Louisiana institute, $1126,
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THE SEVEN men were chosen by a research grants committee of the cancer society made up of doctors from the LSU and Tulane medical schools and physicians from New Orleans and Shreveport.
The research projects represent a wide range of approaches to the study of cancer. .'
Dr. Ryan will continue a study of the effect of* smoking and vitamin deficiency in
guinea pigs.
Dr. Traxler will investigate the role of metal ions and chel-ating agents in bacterial cell division.
A study to determine some of the factors necessary for the spread and growth of tumor cells, hoping to find some way by which this can be controlled, will be carried out by Dr. Shaver.
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DR. GOSS is assistant professor of microbiology at Loyola. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue university and was the recipient of the Beechnut fellowship there. He is listed in the "American Men of Sciences."
His project will be exploratory experiments to determine whether a cqrrelation exists between animal cancer causing
chemicals and their action on germinating seeds.
Stocker joined the staff of Louisiana State university in New Orleans in 1957 as an associate professor of chemistry/ He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Tulane university and did postdoctoral research at Tulane and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He received specialized training in radioisotopic carbon chemistry while a research participant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. * * *
DR. MIZELL, an instructor in zoology at Tulane, has been mainly interested in cell differentiation and rejuvination in his studies. His grant is for the studies of kidney tissue.
Dr. Ryan, assistant professor of surgery at Tulane medical
school, came here in 1956. He completed advance studies at the Mayo Foundation.
The effect of factors producing changes on cell generation time of certain organisms will be explored by Dr. Flannery, head of the department of bacteriology at SLI.
DR. SHAVER, working on the growth of tumor cells, is a resident surgeon practicing at Charity hospital through the Tulane medical school. He is a graduate of Tulane.
The cancer society points out that the grants are examples of funds collected in Louisiana being used for research in the state.
The national organization has returned. $1,032,000 to Louisiana since 1948. PHOTOS: DR. W. L. FLANNERY; DR. R. W. TRAXLER; DR R. O. GROSS; DR. R. F. RYAN ; DR. MERLE MIZELL; DR. J. O. SHAVER; JACK H. STOCKER
