Loma Linda University - Priorities Yearbook (Loma Linda, CA)

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'a F . 'si Be ,v .Hr V. 3 1 . QE' , . Alf ta-streptococci, about 25,000 diameters enlarged. Standard microscopes are limited to about IOOOX Hemophilus influenzae, about 2'I,000X by department workers. Work continues on projects already underway. Apart from the Institute, individual stat? members who desire to work on research projects are given grants for supplies, equipment, and technical labor by the College or by the Alumni Research Foundation. The magazine Life and Health has donated 525,000 to be administered by the College for research work. In Loma Linda several staff members including Ola K. Gant, Ph.D., Lawrence Ashley, Ph.D., and Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D., are working on problems. Ray- mond A. Mortenson, Ph.D., is continuing his work with tracer elements and the Geiger counter. ln Los Angeles at the Hunterian Laboratory, Harry Davis, M.D., is supervising experimental animal surg- ery. Roger Barnes, M.D., and R. T. Bergman, M.D., are studying methods of ureteral transplantation. George Johnstone, M.D., is continuing his thoracic surgery on calves in his attempts to find methods of developing collateral circulation of the coronary vessels. Lester Morrison, M.D., has been provided with a laboratory at the Los Angeles County General Hospital and has been granted funds to study cholesterol metab- olism. Other workers are being similarly aided. Students and faculty members take considerable pride in the work of the Institute and of those studying independently of it. All of us are anxious to see this early flowering increase so that CME can do its share to advance medical knowledge. Ni 117

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RESEARCH he Institute of Experimental Medicine is the formal department in the clinical division which deals exclusively in research problems. The Institute is directed by Robert E. Hoyt, Ph.D., Milton Gielhaug Levine, Ph.D., and a small corps of research techni- cians complete the full-time staff. A research com- mittee studies recommendations for proiects and de- cides which are likely to be most fruitful considering equipment and funds available. The Institute is housed in the ground floor of the clinical laboratory building. lt possesses the major and expensive research equipment owned by the College and makes it available to other staff members for their studies. Pride of the department is the new elec- tron microscope. Considerable time has been needed to learn the techniques of use and interpretation. One of the proiects in the otfing is the study of bacterial morphology, especially of the relation of the capsule to virulence. A laboratory for study of virus diseases is planned which will be dependent on use of the electron microscope. Recent work has developed a method for arriving at quantitative prothrombin values in the blood. A method for determining pregnancy in humans by ovulation in the South African toad, Xenopus laevus, has been studied and found to have several ad- vantages over the conventional Friedman test in rab- bits, including earlier reading of the test and re-use of the animals. Several papers have been published Hoyt und Levine at the electron microscope. Most work is done by photomicrography Technician Helen Turner prepares o specimen for examination under the electron microscope

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