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Sanders told reporters he would pay special attention to developing the market in China for Squibb. He, and Dr. R. Ebert, former dean of the Med School serve on the China Foundation, an organization founded to bring high quality health care to Mainland China. Ebert, now president of the Millbank Foundation, is a member of the Squibb board of directors...
...policy to a university or hospital just because it helps support work going on there. He told the NIH that Hoechst's main interests are to obtain up-to-date information and have a place to train its best young scientists. Alan C. Olsson, dean for resources at the Med School and one of the masterminds behind the Du Pont deal, agrees emphatically, saying that although Du Pont has not requested training positions for its people, the company's main interest "is forwarding investigations that will lead to scientific advancements, not racing to get the rights to discoveries that...
...said, "Proprietary research has no place on campuses. Students and faculty members must be able to pursue their research where their interests lead them and publish it for their own career benefit," according to a report in The Chronicic of Higher Education. But Olsson says that, if necessary, the Med School, and presumably other campus facilities, would be able to separate completely those projects undertaken with private funds from other work. "It will entail paperwork and guidelines, and it is something that can be monitored," he explains...
...also laid claim to 100-per-cent accuracy in early January, when they announced what they called the first reliable test to identify carriers of cystic fybrosis, the most common lethal inherited disease among white Americans. And, although they have not yet determined the accuracy rate, a team of Med School physicians in November discovered a method of sickle-cell anemia treatment that may be a major, if first, step in curing the often-fatal disease, which afflicts 30,000 to 60,000 Black Americans a year...
...studies completed this year once again shortened the list of food items safe to eat. In early January, Dr. Paul Oglesby '38, dean of admissions at the Med School, published the results of a 23-year study linking highcholesterol food with the incidence of fatal heart disease. A couple of months later, Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, published the results of a seven-year study which found that coffee drinkers are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to contract cancer of the pancreas...