Elizabeth Cruickshank Receives Honorary Degree

Rodbell Receives Honor

-The successful development of the concept of linking cell-killing agents to tumour-specific antibodies will be largely determined by the extent to which the antibodies are preferentially localized in the malignant tissue. A xenograft of human choriocarcinoma (CC3) has been established in nude mice, and the relative distribution of affinity-purified specific antibodies to human chorionic gonado...

Durward William John Cruickshank (1924-2007).

GuEld Receives Mass Communion

Harry O. Fox continues as treasurer of the Civil Service Employees Association. He defeated Vernon R. Davis for t he post. The •ote was 11,406 for Fox, 5,855 for Davis. In last week's LEADER'S tabulation of the voting, a "1" was left out of Harry 's vote, which reduced the count to a mere dribble, arid the proof reader didn't catch it. So here's t h e correct figw e again for Har ry : 11,406. A...

NIEHS Receives External Review

A study of mortality from hepatoma and hepatic cirrhosis was conducted in Taiwan, where their mortality rates are among the highest in the world in 1980 being 26.10 and 8.14 per 100,000 population for males and females, respectively, for hepatoma, and 33.01 and 12.90 for males and females, respectively, for cirrhosis. The secular trends of hepatoma and hepatic cirrhosis death rates have been in...

Cooper Receives Lilienfeld Prize

and attendant exposure of the seaport town citizens to benzene emanating from petroleum handled through the terminal as one example, Goldstein reviewed a number of risk assessment issues. He noted that the risk assessment agenda has never been set by scientific experts but is always strongly affected by economic, political, and social issues. He also pointed out that there are two often contrad...