§ Dr. C. C. Booth—Clinical Research Centre, Harrow
- Fetal and Neonatal Development; the effect of infections in pregnancy.
- Simple methods of perinatal monitoring of the mother and child.
- Identification of the components of human milk that protect new-born infants against e.coli enteritis.
- Infra-red and schlieren studies of infants in incubators.
- Perinatal growth and development.
- Abnormal organic acidurias in identification of inborn errors of metabolism particularly mental retardation and severe metabolic disturbance in neonatal period.
- New methods for the diagnosis of the inborn errors of metabolism in the carrier state, prenatally, postnatally and in adults.
- Role of hereditary metabolic disease in stillbirths and perinatal deaths.
- Encephalography of fetus and newborn infant.
- Study of intrauterine growth of the fetus by ultrasonography: early identification of fetal distress, abnormalities and "small for date" babies.
- Infectious agents in respiratory distress of neonates.
§ Professor H. J. Evans—MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit, Edinburgh
- Cytogenetics of selected populations, family studies and clinical follow-up of chromosomally abnormal.
- Chromosome polymorphisms in man: incidence, transmission and possible clinical and genetic consequences.
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Dr. C. O. Carter—MRC Clinical Genetics Unit, London
Study of Isoenzymes in leukaemic cells.
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Dr. R. G. Whitehead, Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge
Epidemiological studies of nutritional status in pregnant and lactating women and their infants and other groups at risk in the United Kingdom.
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Dr. R. S. Bray—MRC Laboratories, The Gambia, West Africa
Infantile diarrhoea.
§ Dr. G. R. Sergeant—MRC Laboratories, Jamaica
- Continuous longterm studies on management of adult and paediatric sickle cell clinics.
- Longterm sickle cell cohort study.
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Professor R. Illsley—MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Aberdeen
Maternal and Neonatal Data Bank.
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Dr. T. Lind—Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Maternal physiological adaptations during normal and abnormal pregnancy and their relation to fetal growth and development.
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Dr. H. C. Whittle—Zaria, Nigeria
Immunological study of measles and malnutrition, and meningococcal infection.
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Professor J. Dobbing—Manchester University
Vulnerable periods in developing brain.
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Dr. Margaret Ounsted—Oxford University
Studies of fetal growth rate and the long term effects of obstetric and medical care in at risk pregnancies.
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Dr. E. N. Thompson—Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff
Participation in the MRC Childhood Leukaemia Trials.
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Professor D. Hull—Nottingham University
Radiant heat exchanges between human newborn infants and their environments.
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Dr. J. Martin—Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool
Participation in clinical trials and investigations of childhood Leukaemia and nephroblastoma.
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Professor R. R. A. Coombs—Cambridge University
Modified anaphylactic reaction to cows milk as a cause of cot death.
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Professor S. Campbell—King's College Hospital Medical School, London
Fetal welbeing in diabetic women; assessment by ultrasound head to abdomen ratio and fetal breathing measurements.
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Dr. T. Lind—Newcastle upon Tyne University
Maternal physiological adaptations during normal and abnormal pregnancy and their relation to fetal growth and development.
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Dr. A. D. Bain—Edinburgh University
The contribution of chromosome abnormalities to stillbirths, neonatal deaths and abortions over 20 weeks gestation.
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Dr. Pauline M. Emerson—Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Leaukaemia trials.
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Professor E. O. R. Reynolds—University College Hospital Medical School, London
Detection of brain-damage in newborn infants by ultrasound.
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Dr. D. P. Southall—Cardiothoracic Institute, London
Are newborn infants with cardiac arrhythmias, prolonged aphoea, or both, at excess risk of sudden infant death?
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Professor E. Alberman—London Medical College
A project to measure the success of medical care in reducing the morbidity as well as mortality of babies weighing 2,000g or less at birth.
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Professor J. Knowelden—Sheffield University
Multicentre study of post-perinatal mortality.
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Dr. I. Chalmers—National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
Confidential enquiries into perinatal deaths and documentation, validation and co-ordination of local perinatal survey data.
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Professor F. Harris—Liverpool University
Liverpool congenital malformation register.
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Professor R. E. A. Mapes—Medical Sociology Research Centre, Swansea University
Advice to parents during the ante-natal period.
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Dr. A. Baldwin—Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Oxford
Effect of termination of pregnancy on subsequent pregnancy outcome and long-term morbidity.
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Dr. C. Kay—Royal College of General Practitioners
Study of sequelae of abortion.