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Monday, August 25, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Grant to aid development of new drugs
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
A research grant of about $2.4 million given to the KU pharmaceutical chemistry department will support a project that may help develop a new generation of drugs, two of the researchers said last week.
The grant, awarded in January by the Upjohn Company, supports to researchers studying the transporting of drugs and nutrients in the human body. The money is divided into yearly payments of $480,500, said Carolyn Cross, director of the research support and grants administration.
Andy Tramml, a member of the research team and a Lawrence graduate student, said he thought the project was the beginning of making more effective drugs.
"If you take an aspirin, it goes in every part of the body — it's one of the reasons you have bad side effects." Trammler said. "Someday we're going to give a patient a drug, and it will go only to the brain. People can take it without side effects."
Ronald Borchardt, chairman of the department and director of the research project, said that the grant was the largest the department ever had received and that it would last at least five years.
Upjohn, a producer of pharmaceutical and agricultural commodities based in Kalamazoo, Mich., set up the grant for the University of Kansas, Borchardt said.
Any important discoveries could be beneficial financially to the University. he said.
"The University will maintain the patent rights of any discoveries, and Uipohn has the right to license these patents for five years," he said. "The University could gain substantial financial resources."
Researchers study how certain drugs are being transported by cells to areas in the body, such as the central nervous system, Borchardt said. The team also studies how to target drugs to specific parts of the body.
City, gun dealers say sales, law not linked
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Handgun sales in Lawrence have decreased since the handgun ordinance passed in March, but city commissioners and gun dealers say the two are not directly related.
Nina Smith, head of the sporting goods department at Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., said that summer sales of handguns tended to be lower and she that thought the ordinance had not threatened sales.
"If anyone wants a gun, even if they have to wait 72 hours, they're going to buy one," she said.
Commissioner David Longhurst said that actual sales were lower than the projected sales that dealers presented to the commission before the ordinance passed.
Commissioner Howard Hill said sales could be down because the largest gun dealer in Lawrence
The JPL Gun Shop, Lawrence's largest gun dealer, moved to Lenexa. The owner, James Ludwig, was opposed to the ordinance. Ludwig would not comment on
recently had closed.
Ladwig would not comment on his move.
Hill said he thought Ludwig left town because Ludwig philosophically was opposed to the ordinance, not because he feared the three-day waiting period drastically would damage his business.
Longhurst said, "I think the ordinance has achieved the objectives we set out for and satisfied the concerns of those who were opposed."
At the time the law was passed, city commissioners said it was to ensure that no one bought a handgun for emotional reasons and to allow the police department to review the records of gun purchasers.
By SALLY STREFF
Epstein reviews presidency
When David Epstein looks forward to his last months as student body president, he sees a lame-duck presidency, and an administration that he thinks has accomplished most of its goals.
"We came in here like gangbusters," Epstein said last week. "I've been very happy with everything we've done. I don't know what more we could have done."
During Epstein's administration, Student Senate has endorsed the "tipsy taxi," a driving service for students at night, established a lecture series and approved a guide describing courses, all of which were campaign promises.
But, several of the Senate's projects have bogged down.
After meeting last semester with Don Kearns, director of parking, Epstein decided that only a chancellor's involvement could solve the campus parking problem.
And he admits that Senate can do no more to push for campus lighting.
The Senate laid the groundwork for most of the campaign goals last spring, he said, and now he wants to ensure that they are carried out.
"It is out of Senate's hands," he said.
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