Clinical Research at Guy's Hospital

Abstract

THE governors of Guy's Hospital and the governors of Guy's Hospital Medical School have accepted an invitation from the Medical Research Council to co operate in the establishment of a new ‘unit’ for scientific research work in clinical medicine. It has been agreed that the Council will provide the salary of a whole-time director and of his assistants, with the cost of all apparatus and research material used by the unit. For its part, the Hospital will provide suitable laboratory accommodation free of charge, and will place and maintain beds at the disposal of the director: the latter is to be ex officio a member of the visiting staff, with a seat on the Medical Com mittee and the committees of the Medical School. These arrangements are to be effective for a period of five years in the first instance. Dr. Ronald T. Grant, hitherto working in the service of the Council in the Department of Clinical Research at University College Hospital, London, has been appointed director of the new unit. The invitation was issued to Guy's Hospital by the Medical Research Council in accordance with its general policy of improving the facilities available in Great Britain for the scientific study of disease in the human subject, and with this end in view of increasing the number of higher appointments for whole-time workers in this field. The financial resources which the Council is able to apply to the purpose are those which were released when the senior post formerly maintained by the Council at University College Hospital, and held by Sir Thomas Lewis, received permanent endowment through the generous action of the Rockefeller Foundation.