Naval Medical Research Center Research Articles

The 3rd Cabo Gene Therapy Focus Panel: On the Offensive for Biodefense

The 3rd Cabo Gene Therapy Focus Panel: On the Offensive for Biodefense

Harold Clifton Urschel, Jr., MD, LLD(Hon), DS(Hon): A Conversation with the Editor

Hal Urschel (Figure ​(Figure11) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and he grew up primarily in Bowling Green, 20 miles away. After public schools, he went to Princeton University on a football scholarship and graduated cum laude in 1951. The Princeton team was undefeated during his freshman and senior years. He also had a scholarship to Harvard University School of Medicine, where he again graduated cum laude in 1955. His internship, residency, and chief residency in general, vascular, cardiac, and thoracic surgery were at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. After serving in the US Navy as chief of experimental surgery at the National Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, he and his young family moved to Dallas and have been here ever since.

Variant proteins on the surface of malaria-infected erythrocytes--developing vaccines.

Abstract An expert meeting on Malaria Variant Antigen Vaccines, organized by Stephen Hoffman, Carter Diggs, Dror Baruch and Patrick Duffy, was held at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA, 27–28 February 2001.

The Teaching of Marketing Related to the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Needs

David H. Crombe is assistant dean and associate professor of pharmacy administration at the University of Rhode Island college of pharmacy. Previously he taught for eight years at Rhode Island as assistant professor of bacteriology. He received his BS in pharmacy from Rhode Island and his MS from the University of Southern California. During World War II, he conducted research in malariology at the National Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Crombe spent twenty years overseas serving as manager for Merck, Sharp & Dohme for India; managing director of Merck, Sharp & Dohme Australia (PTY), Ltd.; president of Merck, Sharp & Dohme Canada Ltd. and regional manager for the Middle East for E. R. Squibb and Company. Since June 1972 Professor Crombe has been on sabbatical leave in Frankfurt, Germany with Farbwerke-Hoechst.

Host-Parasite Relations in Some Pentastomida

Pentastomida generally considered to reach adulthood in the respiratory systems of reptiles may attain precocious development in some of these definitive hosts. Sexually mature Kiricephalus pattoni and Porocephalus crotali have been recovered from serous cavities and tissues. In tissue dwelling forms there is evidence that contacts may be maintained with the atmosphere through integumentary rents. In natural mammalian and reptilian hosts tissue dwelling pentastomes elicit little, if any, pathological tissue response, while in human tissues the response may be highly inflammatory. Studies of extensive collections of Pentastomida made by Kuntz and co-workers from Africa and Pacific islands, especially Taiwan and the Philippine Islands, are the prime bases for this work. However, we are indebted to Drs. J. C. Pearson and M. J. Mackerras, Brisbane, Australia, for tissue forms from the Australian bandicoot and to Dr. R. L. Muller, London School of Tropical Medicine, for specimens from human tissues taken at Ibadan, Nigeria. We are also indebted to the U. S. Naval Medical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, for photographs of certain speci-