The American Cancer Society has awarded grants totalling $3,360 to three Louisiana scientists.
Those receiving grants and their projects are:
JPrv M. Bert Myers. Louisiana State University Medical School, to perfect a method of preventing skin sloughs in radical cancer surgery, $660. Dr. Joseph M. Sobek, University of Southwestern Louisiana, to investigate the influence of endogenous metabolism on the survival and growth of ultraviolet irradiated bacteria, $700.
Dr. Glenn M. Kokame, Tu-lane Medical School, to study the enhancing effect of anti-cancer agents to cancer cells, subjected to synchronous mitosis by hypothermia, $2,000.
Dr. Myers, a native of New Orleans is a graduate of Newman High School and attended the University of North Carolina and Tulane University School of Medicine. He is at present a clinical assistant professor in surgery at LSU. Dr. Joseph Sobek, a native of Newport, R. I., is a graduate of Stanford University where he received both his B.A. and Ph.D. Since 1959 he has been assistant professor of bacteriology at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette.
Dr. Glenn M. Kokame, a native of Hawaii, graduated from the university there and also took a B.S. and M.D. degree from Tulane. Since 1960 he has been an instructor of surgery at Tulane.
