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AT the seventy-first quarterly meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign held on July 10, the following grants were approved: £400 to Mount Vernon Hospital for the employment of Prof. F. Weigert for research on a special biochemical problem; £495 to the Strange-ways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, for the salary of its physicist, Dr. D. E. Lea, and £400 to Sir Robert Muir and Dr. P. R. Peacock for research to be carried out at the Glasgow Royal Cancer Hospital by Dr. Stephan Beck. This brings the total grants made to date by the Campaign for cancer research for the year 1939 to more than £49,000. The formation of a University of Cambridge Research Centre of the British Empire Cancer Campaign was approved. The initial Committee to supervise this Centre will consist of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. H. R. Dean, Prof. J. A. Ryle, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Dr. Honor Fell, augmented later by other scientific workers at Cambridge. In future this Centre will co-ordinate all the cancer research being carried out at Cambridge and will itself initiate and direct research in the same way as the recently formed University of Oxford Research Centre of the Campaign. The Grand Council acceded to the request for affiliation from the Cancer Research Fund Committee (1934) of Northern Ireland, which now provides a link between the work of the Campaign and the cancer research being carried out at the University of Belfast and in Ulster generally. The following were elected members of Grand Council: Prof. J. A. Crowther (professor of physics in the University of Reading), Dr. H. T. Flint (director of physics at Westminster Hospital), Dr. R. W. Scarff (honorary secretary of the Scientific Committees of the Campaign) and Mr. D. G. Walker to represent the British Dental Association.
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British Empire Cancer Campaign. Nature 144, 109–110 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144109f0
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