Eighteen medical students gave reports Monday night on work they had done during the summer under research grants from the Louisiana Heart Association.
They met at a dinner at| Delmonico's resturant to com-| pare results and techniques.
Typical of these selected stu-j dents were Robert G. , Weijf-baecher and Warren D. Grafton! of the Louisiana State university medical school and Su Y Go of the Tulane university medical school.
Weilbaecher went to Johns Hopkins Medical school in Baltimore to study medical genetics. He was the first student to be sent out of state in the Heart Association's program. He is a New Orleans resident and a sophomore in medical school. HEART RESEARCH
Graf ton, a junior from Bernice, worked with Dr. Walter J. Hollis, an associate professor at the LSU medical I school, during the summer. I They measured the extremely minute movement of the body vibrations caused by heart beat. Their aim was to see if there was any relation between the distance the body moved in this vibration and the amount of blood pumped by one of the iheart. Dr. Hollis said their research was successful.
Go, a naturalized Chinese now residing in Vicksburg, Miss., and a medical school senior, worked in pediatric hematology (the study of blood of children) under the supervision of Dr. William G. Thurman of the Tulane medical faculty.
SOUGHT CORRELATION
He attempted to find the correlation, if any, between the blood density and erthrocyte sedimentation rate. This is the rate at which the red blood cells will settle to the bottom of a test tube filled with blood. He said that in the cases of bacteria infection which he studied no such correlation was found.
Dr. Walton Akenhead, chairman of the association's research committee, spoke briefly of the program's purpose.
These three students and 24 others were awarded summer research fellowships of $600 each by the Heart Association. The program was begun seven years ago to interest bright medical students in research and train them in the experimental method.
The medical student fellowship chairman, Dr. Charles jSpague, presided at the meeting.
