RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Hamburg. Grants in Great Britain included
33,000 to the Medical Research Council, toward
the study of hereditary factors in mental disorders,
by Dr. T. A. Munro, at the University of
Edinburgh; 32,477.50to Guy's Hospital, London,
for research, under the direction of Dr. R. D.
Gillespie, on asthma and certain cardiac disorders
in relation to neuroses; 33,000 for studies
under the direction of Sir Henry Dale at the
National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead,
England, on conduction currents in nerves
and on other problems related to the central nervous
system and the neuromuscular apparatus,
particularly from the biochemical angle; 33,000
for research on the physiology of the nervous
system, by Sir Charles Sherrington and Dr. J. C.
Eccles, at the University of Oxford; 32,477.50
for morphological and experimental work on the
brain and research on the connections of the central
nervous system, by Professor W. E.LeGros
Clark and Dr. Solly Zuckerman, at the same
university; 32,165.94 for the study of nervous
reactions in mammalian embryos which Professors
Barcroft and Adrian are carrying on at
the University of Cambridge by
electrical
methods. Two grants were made to the American
University of Beirut, Republic of Lebanon—one
of 31>500 for the support of studies of brain
metabolism by Professor S. E. Kerr, and one of
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