Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research

Abstract

The following elections have been made by the Trustees of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research, the subject and place of research being indicated after the name:'Senior Fellowship in Tropical Medicine (£1000 a year, for one further year): Dr. E. Hindle, spirochætosis, with special reference to the causation of yellow fever. Fourth Year Fellowships (value £500 a year): Dr. C. L. Cope, excretion by the mammalian kidney of the glomerular dyestuffs and of the inert sugars believed to be excreted only by the glomeruli (Radcliffe Infirmary and Department of Biochemistry, Oxford); Margaret Honora Roscoe, to continue work on the vitamin B complex (Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London); Mr. K. A. C. Elliott, to complete work on peroxidases, and then to study tissue respiration from the point of view of carbon dioxide evolution (Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, Cambridge). Junior Fellowships (£400 a year): Dr. H. P. Himsworth, activation of insulin by a possible kinase and effect of diets of varying composition on diabetic patients (University College Hospital Medical School, London); Mr. N. R. Lawrie, biochemical investigation of the nutritional requirements of Protozoa and the study of patients with abnormal metabolism of sulphur-containing compounds (Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, Cambridge, and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge); Dr. D. H. Williams, carbohydrate metabolism, particularly the storage of liver glycogen in experimental animals (Department of Physiology, University College, London); Mr. D. W. W. Henderson, antibacterial mechanisms in prophylaxis and therapy of tetanus; cultivation of the viruses of louping ill and fowlpox (Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London); Dr. R. G. R. West, neurological mechanism of tetany and the pharmacology of curare (Physiological Department, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School); Dr. R. Gaddie, intermediate carbohydrate metabolism of isolated frog's heart; mode of action of insulin in the animal body (Departments of Medical Chemistry and Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh); Mr. F. G. Young, storage of carbohydrate by the liver in experimental animals (Departments of Physiology at University College, London, and at the University of Aberdeen); Dr. J. M. Robson, hormonic factors responsible for the maintenance of pregnancy and onset of parturition (Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh).