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Funding for the project remains uncertain. Lown cited cuts in federal training grants as an immediate problem. The grants support working physicians. "I have several working fellows here," said Lown, "and beginning July 1, I will have no stipend for them...
...goal is to identify susceptible subjects," said Lown. His team is also developing drugs which would be used to regulate heartbeat and is studying the higher nervous activities involved with heartbeat rate...
According to Lown, several hundred Boston residents are already being monitored and about 2400 have undergone "stress" testing...
...Myasnikov Institute plans to begin heart monitoring and stress experimenting as soon as equipment and trained Russian workers arrive from Harvard, "probably by late summer or early autumn," said Lown...
Harvard expressed interest in Lown's work when it discovered that sudden death strikes as frequently in the Soviet Union as in the United States...