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Importance To Medicine And Public: Distinguished professor president of the State Stony Brook, Dr. Glass Review of Biology. He the board of trustees of oratory of Quantitative the board of directors for the Advancement of
Dr. Glaser is vice-president for medical affairs, dean, and professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also president-elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges and a member of the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Public Health Service, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Board of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Leon Bernard Foundation Medal and Prize. Established in 1937 in honor of Leon Bernard, French pioneer in public health, the prize in 1968 was awarded by the World Health Organization to Josef Charvat of Czechoslovakia in recognition of outstanding services in social medicine and valuable contributions to international health. Charvat is head of the Third Medical Clinic of Charles University, Prague, and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. His published work includes papers on insulin, nutrition, thyroid deficiencies, and asthma. One of the first to recognize the importance of cybernetics and mathematical methods in medical research, he introduced their use in public health practices.
Because a bacterium can suddenly become resistant to many potentially useful drugs, the nature of the RTF is of great importance to medicine and public health. The RTF has been shown to direct the enzymatic conversion of the drug into an inactive derivative.
The physiological properties of the RTF were also studied. The episome falls into two distinct classes. One produces a sex pilus (a temporary tube that connects two conjugating bacteria), indistinguishable from that of the classical F-episome (fertility factor) with which most of the work on bacterial conjugation has been done. The other class of RTF closely resembles another episome that also permits conjugation (the colicin I factor). |
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