Wednesday, March 18, 1964 University Daily Kansan
Medical Center Gets $100,000 for Testing
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A grant of $100,000 to the KU Medical Center at Kansas City for a five-year testing and training program in the correct use of drugs was announced yesterday.
The grant is from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a pharmaceutical company active in the United States and Britain. It is the fifth such grant made by the company in recent years.
WILLIAM N. CREASY, president of the fund, said, "The primary purpose (of the fund) is to assist medical schools with a first-class teacher to develop laboratories where young physicians may learn to apply basic scientific techniques in the study of drug mechanisms."
Dr. Daniel L. Azarnoff, assistant professor of medicine at the KU Medical Center, has been appointed by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund as
director of the testing program.
LABORATORY TESTS may give clues as to how the new drugs will work, and the desirable or undesirable effects on humans might be determined in the laboratory by experiments with animals.
Dr. Azarnoff received his M.D. from KU in 1955. Before returning to KU as a member of the faculty, he taught at Washington University and St. Louis University. His research interest has been in drugs that influence the metabolism of fats by the body.
He plans to continue his research of drugs as to their side effects and relation to metabolism.
"Our program basically will be to train more physicians in how and why drugs affect body processes, and to be sure of their overall safety through proper use," Azarnoff said.
John Hanessian, a speaker from the American Universities Field Staff, will be visiting KU for eight days beginning Thursday.
He will be speaking to three or four classes each school day of his stay.
AUFS Staffer Visits KU
His main area of study for the AUFS has been of national and international developments in respect to the polar areas. He has also had an opportunity to acquaint himself with some aspects of Middle Eastern affairs, notably the progress of Iran's land reform program.
BEFORE joining AUFS in 1960, he had been attached to the staff responsible for the American contribution to the International Geophysical Year program. In that capacity, he visited bases in the Arctic and Antarctic.
In 1958 he was awarded a fellowship by the Institute of Current World Affairs to take graduate studies at Cambridge University and do research on polar problems.
The subject of his doctoral thesis now in preparation is international controls in Antarctica. The manuscript is also being considered for British publication.
Hanessian will be at KU until Friday, April 27.
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