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Show Five Soviet Scientists To Visit Medic School Five of the U.S.S.R.'s leading medical scientists will visit the University of Utah College of Medicine Feb. 23-25, Dr. Philip B. Price, dean of the medical school, announced. Dr. Price said the Soviet research re-search scientists will visit Utah's College of Art as part of a five week tour of U. S. institutes engaged in neurological research. re-search. Utah and the University of California Medical Center at Los Angeles are the only two western universities on the Soviet So-viet delegation's agenda. The Soviet scientists ahe S. V. Anichov, P. K. Anokhin, V. V. Zakusov, V. H. Chernigovsky, and V. S. Rusinov. They will be accompanied by two U. S. State Department translators and interpreters. Purpose of their visit is to enable the Soviets to become familiar with United States research re-search on physiology and pharmacology phar-macology of the central nervous system. The tour is under the auspices of the USSR Ministry of Health, the U. S. State Department, and the Department of Health, Education Edu-cation and Welfare Public Health Service. Last fall, Dr. Louis S. Goodman, Good-man, head of the University of Utah College of Medicine Pharmacology Phar-macology Department, was one member of a six man U. S. Scientific Sci-entific team that toured the Soviet So-viet Union. Dr. Goodman said thta he is acquainted with four of the Soviet scientists and that they are among the USSR leading lead-ing medical scientists and academicians. aca-demicians. While tourist the Utah College of Medicine, the Soviet scientists will visit the site of the school's new Medical Center. They will also be shown the architect's drawing of the building that will replace the school's present facilities. |