George Washington University School of Medicine - Speculum Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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PHARMACOLOGICAL ULTIMATES are sealed: Drs. T. Farber, H. G. Mandel, E. Tidball, and V. Cohn, jr., siandmg: Drs. W. Weiss, C. Davison, M. Reich. as f.af I- 29 H. G. MANDEL, Ph.D. Chairman and Professor of Pharmacology ZAP! In vwo experiments are essential studying effects of potent drugs.

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lil- 1:41 sw' gf fr - f 'wx D V' :Q Pharmacology . . . Mechanisms and Actions The Department of Pharmacology has always been and remains an outstanding department. To the medical students the subject of pharmacology is at first difficult to master because of the vast amount of material to be committed to memory. But one soon realizes during the clinical years that it was the basic principles of the subject that are brought along and the knowledge of individual therapeutics is retained through his daily use. Under the direction of Professor H. George Mandel the department teaches a rigorous course to its students while maintaining an active research program. Dr. Mandel has emphasized didactic lectures and conferences while reducing the laboratory time to include those ex- periments considered essential. Dr. Mandel's field of research inhibitory agents, antimetabolites, cancer chemotherapy, and nucleic Associate Professor Clarke Davison, for his erudite lectures, is engaged interests is growth drug metabolism, acid biochemistry. whom we remember in research in sali- cylates and analgesics. Other fields of activity being investigated are histamine metabolism, psychotropic drugs, purine metabolism of tumors, barbiturates, and neurohormones. We express a vote of gratitude to this department for its excellence in teaching and preparation thatwe received during our contact with them. 28 SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS of crowded classrooms, September weather, and oral anesthesia are reiterated by Clarke Davison Ph.D.

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Active or Passive . . . Physiology Emphasizes Progress Our of the great abyss of cellular biophysics, Eugene Renkin l1as guided his good ship Membrane Physiology toward a more dynamic and unified approach. In addition to the basic course, a whole new program is envisioned for electives, clinical physiology, Masters, and Pl1.D. program. Dr. Renkin, who is interested in basic cellular physiology, has been honored this past year while in Germany, when he was asked to speak about Capillary Permeability at the meeting of the Society of Natural Scientists and Physicians. This fall he will again be honored when he delivers the Bowditch Lecture before the American Physiological Society meeting. In an attempt to build up the research program, National Science Foundation and NIH grants have been secured. In order to add more depth to the department, Dr. Barbara Alving, who is presently at the University of Miami doing research in neuromuscular physiology, will join the staff this spring. One of our more permanent memories concerns Charlie Hogben and his infallible Sodium Pump. Since any other explanation was tantamount to an artifact, the disbelievers amongst us soon capitulated and the Sodium Pump became the panacea for all unexplainable phenomena. Department of Physiology staff sealed Drs. M Westecker, E. M. Renkin R. Henderson. standing, Drs. F. P. J. Diecke, C. S. Tidball, C. E. Ieese f? 4-Q