Grants totaling $7107 have been awarded seven doctors and scientists from Louisiana for special, cancer research projects.
The grants were announced Wednesday by the Louisiana ,di-vision, American Cancer Society.
It is hoped that the projects will lead to greater knowledge and eventual conquest of cancer, said Mrs. W. J. Richard, president of the Louisiana division of the society.
Named to receive the grants were:
Dr. Robert C. Goss, assistant professor of microbiology at Loyola university $700.
Jack H. Stocker, associate professor of chemistry at Louisiana State university in New Orleans, $1426.
Dr. Merle Mizell, an instructor in zoology at Tulane university, $1200.
Dr. Robert F. Ryan, assistant professor of surgery at Tulane medical school, $500.
COMMITTEE CHOICES
Dr. J. O. Shaver, a resident surgeon practicing at Charity hospital through the Tulane medical school, $925.
Dr. Richard W. Traxler, assistant professor of bacteriology at Southwestern Louisiana institute, $1230.
Dr. W. L. Flannery, head of the department of bacteriology at SLI, $1126.
The seven men were chosen by a research grants committee of the cancer society. The committee is composed 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.
The role of metal ions and che-lating agents in bacterial cell division will be investigated by Dr. Traxler.
Dr. Shaver will attempt 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.
Dr. Goss' project will be explor-j atory experiments to determine1 whether a correlation exists between animal cancer causing chemicals and their action on germinating seeds.
CELL STUDIES
The effect of factors producing changes on cell generation time of certain organisms will be ex-i plored by Dr. Elannery.
Dr. Mizell has been mainly interested in cell differentiation and rejuvenation. His grant is for studies of kidney tissue.
Stocker's study is entitled "The Preparation of Possible Antineo-plastics by the Thermolecular Condensation of Selected Methy-lene Ketones."
The cancer society pointed out that the grants are examples of funds collected in Louisiana being used for research in the state.
The national organization has I returned $1,032,000 to Louisiana 'since 1948.
