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The Council for Tobacco Research -U.S.A.. Inc. 



Supporting BioMEnicAL Investigation 



funding from both governmental and non- governmental 

 entities, such as the National Institutes of Health 

 (including the National Cancer Institute) , the Environmental 

 Protection Agency, the American Cancer Society, the American 

 Lung Association, the American Heart Association and other 

 leading sponsors of medical research. 



The Council has funded research at most of the 

 preeminent medical and scientific research institutions in 

 the United States, including Harvard Medical School, Johns 

 Hopkins University, MIT, Yale University, Stanford 

 University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, 

 Princeton University, the University of Texas, the Mayo 

 Clinic, Scripps Research Institute, the American Red Cross, 

 the Salk Institute, the National Institutes of Health and 

 several Veterans Administration Hospitals, to name but a 

 few. Attached to my statement is a list of institutions 

 that have received grants from the Council. 



The Council funds grants in a variety of 

 biomedical fields, including cancer, cardiovascular 

 diseases, cell biology, developmental biology, epidemiology, 

 genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, pulmonary 

 diseases, radicals and virology. The investigations that 

 have received Council grants have varied over time as the 



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