Three New Orleans scientists have been awarded American Heart Association grants totaling $22,990 to conduct research on disease of the heart and blood vessels.
The grants are. among 216 totaling almost $1,700,000 awarded to scientists throughout the nation aND suppcited by public!
contributions to the 1960 Heart! Fund.
The New Orleans scientists and their projects are:
Dr. Gerald S. Berenson, associate professor of medicine at i Louisiana State university medical school, $7700 for studies of the chemical changes that occur in the connective tissues of the body when they become inflamed, as in rheumatic fever. Dr. H. S. Mayerson, chairman of the physiology department at Tulane university medical school, $8250 for studies in animals of the structure and function of the lymphatic system, using radioactive tracers. Dr. Sam A. Threefoot, director of research at Touro Infirmary, $7040 for studies to visualize and photograph the activity of arteries, veins, and lymphatics, and the response of these vessels to various stimuli and drugs. The three scientists also won American Heart grants last year. Cyril T. Yancey, Monroe, president of the Louisiana Heart Association will announce a second set of research grants-in-aid later this month. With these new grants, the American Heart Association will spend a new high of more than $9,000,000 for scientific studies during the 1960-61 fiscal year. PHOTOS: Dr. H. S. MAYEESON; DR. SAM A. THREEFOOT; Dr. Gerald S. Berenson
