RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
tion and investigation of a hitherto unrecognized
protein component essential to life, under Professor
W. C. Rose; $4,900 to continue the
spectroscopic analysis of blood serum of anemic
children, under Professor K. D. Blackfan of the
Harvard Medical School and Professor G. R.
Harrison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
34,250 to the University of California
for the study of the deposition of fixed minerals
in the living cell, by the microincineration
method, under Professor T. H. Goodspeed;
$3,000 to Duke University for research by Professor
D. T. Smith in connection with the
identification of the pellagra factor and the development
of a diet containing the antipellagra
factor; $3,000 to McGill University to provide
controlled temperature chambers and other facilities
for the development of the Department
of Genetics; $3,000 to Harvard University for the
investigations of Professor Walter Bauer on the
biochemistry of the synovial fluid.
During 1935 the Foundation also made three
appropriations totaling $185,000 designated as a
special fund for grants in aid for the establishment,
in countries other than their own, of eminent
European scholars working in fields of the
Foundation's interests, who, because of disturbed
political conditions, have been forced to leave
their own countries. Of this fund, $14,675 was
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