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AT the meeting of the trustees of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research on July 12, it was announced that Prof. T. R. Elliott, professor of medicine in the University of London, and Prof. E. D. Adrian, Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society, have been appointed trustees in succession to the late Sir John Rose Bradford and to Sir Charles Sherrington respectively. Elections to fellowships were made as follows, the proposed subject and place of research being given in each case after the new fellow's name. Senior Fellowship (value £700 per annum): Mr. R. Hill, to continue his studies on the respiratory function of haemoglobin (Physiological Laboratory and the Molteno Institute, University of Cambridge). Fourth Year Fellowships (value £500 per annum): Dr. R. Gaddie, to continue his research on the metabolism of heart muscle (Departments of Medical Chemistry and Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh); Dr. J, M. Robson, to continue his work on the hormonic factors concerned in the maintenance of pregnancy and initiation of parturition (Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, or the School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge); Dr. F. G. Young, to study the diabetogenic factors of the anterior pituitary gland (Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University College, London). Junior Fellowships (normal value £400 per annum): Dr. A. R. Todd, molecular structure of vitamin Bt (Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Edinburgh); Mr. R. J. Kellar, the problem of nephritis and high blood pressure associated with pregnancy (London laboratories of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Obstetric Unit, University College Hospital, London); Mr. N. L. Edson, fat metabolism and ketogenesis (Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge); Dr. M. H. Salaman, investigation of the antigenic structure of the vaccinia virus (Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London); Dr. J, D. Fulton, experimental chemotherapy of malaria (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine); Dr. Adele H. Rosenheim, chemical nature of antibodies, especially those m antityphoid sera (Lister Institute of preventive Medicine, London). The honorary secretary pf the Beit Memorial Trustees is Prof. T.B, Elliott, University College Hospital Medical School, University Street, London, W.C.I.
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Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research. Nature 136, 100 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136100d0
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