Thursday, Sept. 29, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Three Faculty Members Get $27,000 in Research Awards
Cora M. Downs, professor of bacteriology, will continue her study of the growth of various viral and rickettsial agents in cultured cells this year with a $15,686 U.S. Public Health Service grant.
Three faculty members have been awarded research grants totaling $27,313.
Two full-time technicians assigned to work with Prof. Downs on the project are Ruth Cady and Joan Handley, research assistants in the virus laboratory. Research assistants on the project are Harold Craig Lyerla, Kansas City, Mo., and Rosemary Groyon, Junction City, both graduate students.
WITH THE renewed grant, she will attempt to discover how agents causing "Q" fever and pox viruses infect their hosts and how the infection is caused.
CHARLES LEONE, professor of zoology, will continue his study of the effects of radiation on protein structure with the renewal of an $11,483 contract with the Atomic Energy Commission.
Since World War II, Prof. Downs has received research grants totaling $300,000. Last year she was on leave from the University to do research at Oxford University in England under a National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship.
In this third year of research Prof. Leone hopes to determine how to utilize radiation damaged proteins to perform certain physiological tricks.
"For example, we will attempt to modify them into specific antibodies," he said. "We'll also study how they are fragmented by radiation and the nature of the damage to the protein molecules, fundamental to all living things."
Prof. Downs is an internationally recognized authority on ricksettial diseases, particularly tularemia.
Working with Prof. Leone on the project are George H. Sweet, Wichita graduate student; Elizabeth Fly, Topea sophomore and holder of a National Science Foundation undergraduate research grant; Linley Watson, Topea junior and holder of the Kansas Heart Assn. Research Fellowship; Dorothy Kelly, Mission freshman, and Jo Lynne Swanson, Mission senior.
SAUL I. FROMMER, Bronx, N.Y., graduate student and teaching assistant in the entomology department has been awarded a $144 research supply grant from the U.S. Public Health Service to aid him in
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his biological study of Calliphoridae commonly known as blow flies.
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Mr. Frommer is making a study of the biology and classification of the flies with a USPHS Predoctora Fellowship awarded him earlier. The additional grant will enable him to ship books and make trips to the Michigan Biological Station, Cheyboygan County, Mich., where he did research this summer.
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Mr. Frommer is working under the direction of George W. Byers, associate professor of entomology and assistant curator of the Snow Entomological Museum.
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Scientists Discover New Cancer Virus
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NEW YORK—(UPI) - Scientists have discovered a virus linked to human cancer.
The newly-found virus is associated with at least eight cancers of different types from various parts of the human body, the researchers reported last night.
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