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Show Former Resident Wins Phamacology Award Dr. Don W. Esplin, assistant professor of phamacology at the University of Utah and a former resident and student of Cedar City, Ci-ty, was honored recently as the recipient of the 19G1 John J. Abel award of the American Society So-ciety for Phamacology and Experimental Ex-perimental Therapeutics. The award was bestowed at a dinner in Atlantic City, N. J., which was one of the highlights of the annual meeting of the American Societies for Experimental Experi-mental Biology and Medicine. Dr. Esplin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Esplin, former Cedar City residents and he is married to the former Billie Leigh, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford W. Leigh of Cedar City. They reside at 607 South 13th East in Salt Lake City and have three daughters . As recipient of the coveted award, he is the fifth member of the staff at the U. of U. College Col-lege of Medicine's department "lit pharmacology to receive the award and the second Utah native. na-tive. The Abel Award, given in honor hon-or of the Jate Dr. John J. Abel, one of America's pioneer pharmacologists, phar-macologists, is the highist honor a young pharmacologist can re-.coive. re-.coive. Dr. Esplin received the award for his work on the mechanism mech-anism of action of certain drugs on the nervous system and for his studies on anti-convulsive drugs. He was the first to describe des-cribe experimental spinal cord convulsions. He is now working in the fourth year of a five year grant from the National Institutes of Health and more than 35 publications publi-cations have been listed to his credit during the eight years he has been with U. of U. |