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Show Two Utah Scientists Gain Heart Grants Two scientists have received awards totaling $16,000 to conduct con-duct research in Utah in the broad field of cardiovascular disease, it was announced by Dr. K. A. Crockett, president of the Utah Heart Association. They are Clark J. Gubler, Ph.D. at BYU in Provo, working under H. Smith Broadbent, and Homer R. Warner, Ph.D., University of Utah College of Medicine and I Latter-day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City. The awards made possible by public contributions to the Annual An-nual Heart Fund appeal, were among 182 totaling $1,562,243, given to scientists in the country under the national research support sup-port program of the American Heart Association , and its , affiliates. affili-ates. Of the Heart Fund contributions contri-butions provided by the Utah Heart Association to support the national program aimed , at com- bating the cardiovascular diseases, dis-eases, more than 50 per cent is allocated to research. Today's awards for the twelve months beginning July 1, 1959. A goodly number of investigators investi-gators are engaged in basic re-! re-! search, seking new knowledge at the most fundamental biological ievels. It requires long and patient pa-tient probing, following up new la ds wherever they appear. "Yet it is only through such fundamental studies that we can overcome the barriers of ignorance ignor-ance that still block the way to the prevention or cure of diseases dis-eases taking more than 850,000 American lives each year." , In addition to participating in the national research suoport nrogram of the American Heart Association, Dr. Crockett pointed point-ed out that the Utah Heart Association Asso-ciation maintains its own research re-search suoport program under which $25,625 has been appropriated appro-priated to eight Utah scientists. i "Do you love me, darling?" "Of course I do, Bob." "Bob? My name's Jim." "Oh, yes. I keep thinking today to-day is Monday." |