Harvard Given 18 Cancer Study Grants in '63

Eighteen cancer research grants totaling $624,562 were awarded to Harvard researchers during 1963 by the American Cancer Society.

The annual report of the Massachusetts Division of the Society, released yesterday, shows that the University received more grants than any other institution in the country, almost five per cent of the national total.

One of the grants established a new chair of radiological research at the Medical School, which has been filled by Henry I. Kohn, professor of Radiology. The new chair, known as the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller-American Cancer Society Professorship of Radiology, is one of 17 full-time research posts endowed by the Society throughout the country. Three of these research professorships are now at Harvard.

The other awards were all made for specific research projects. Thirteen grants went to professors at the Medical School, two to post-doctoral fellows there, one to a nutritionist at the School of Public Health, and one to a research associate in the Department of Biology. All of these grants are renewable.

The funds are being used for the investigation of such problems as the rate of mitosis in tumor cells, protein synthesis, hormone metabolism, and enzyme formation.