Onchocerciasis. $99,000 from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, New York, to Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, to develop a vaccine.
Hearing research. Three grants each of $13,500 each under the Otological Research Fellowship
Program of the Deafness
Research Foundation:
University of California, Davis,
K. Adachi University of
Michigan, M. T. Tsai;
University of Washington, P.
S. Bobrer
Vision research. From Gannett Foundation: $40,000 and $31,390 to Baylor College of Medicine for genetic research on retinal dystrophies $106,000 to Harvard University and $101,751 to the University of California, Los Angeles, for genetic research on recessive retinitis pigmentosa $39,989 to the University of Pennsylvania for research on choroidermia; $44,805 to the University of California for research on molecular genetics of inherited retinal defects and $424,031 to
the National Retinitis
Pigmentosa Foundation,
Baltimore, for studies of
molecular genetics in
hereditary retinal degeneration
SPACE RESEARCH
Materials research. From NASA’S Marshall Space Flight Center: $339,225 to...