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Baltimore Jewish Hospital Gets $1,850,000 Grant for Cancer Research

October 12, 1961
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A grant of $1,850,000 has been given to Inai Hospital of Baltimore by the National Cancer Institute for a seven-year program of research on chemical approaches to combatting the disease, it was announced by Joseph Sherbow, president of the hospital.

Dr. Arnold M. Seligman, surgeon-in-chief at the hospital, is directing the program. He has been doing cancer research under grants from the National Cancer Institute since 1946. The new grant for $1,850,000 will permit experimentation with new drugs designed and prepared in collaboration with the Chemical Research Division of the Army Research and Development Laboratories.

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