Tulane university scientist Donald F. M. Bunce II, medical school instructor, has received a $4780 grant-in-aid award of the Louisiana Heart Association's Rowell A. Billups Memorial Research Award for further study of the prevention of brain damage by slowing down the body's^ processes through the "ice box", treatment.
One phase of Dr. Bunce's work is to determine the value of hypothermia—the ^ice box" method of lowering body temperatures— in prevent^;-; cine or all of the tissue damage which occurs at normal body temperatures when there is a blocking of the big blood vessels supplying the brain.
A second phase will be to study the usefulness of cooling in treating impact injuries or disease damage to the brain itself.
The work at present is being done on experimental animals.
Dr. Harold P. Chastant, Lafayette, president of the Heart Association, said the grant was part of a $5000 gift made to the association's research program by W. F,, '"Buddie" Bi
