A $2.3 million grant to support continued studies of natural and experimental athero-scerosis—hardening of the arteries in heart disease — has been awaraded Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. First knowledge of the seven-year grant by the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md., was received at the medical school late yesterday.
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for the project are t)r. Jack P. Strong, professor of pathology, and Dr. Henry C. McGill, professor and head of the department of pathology at LSU. Both men have been studying atherosclerosis — the leadingcause of death among American males—for the past decade and NIH has been supporting their work. Their efforts followed the initial research of Dr. Russell L. Holman, professor and head of the department of pathology at LSU until his death in 1960. Dr. Holman pioneered at LSU in research on hardening of the arteries.
DR. STRONG SAID the program would involve work with humans and animals at LSU facilities in New Orleans and also throughout the world. He said Dr. McGill directs a program titled "The International Antherosclerosis Project." The program is designed to learn more about the causes and effects of hardening of the arteries by combining methods used in studying the structure and chemistry of the arteries with experimental m et h o d s which investigate the environmental background of persons in the disease.
