Knobil Gets 5 Year Grant for Research

Dr. Ernest Knobil, Associate in Physiology at the Medical School, has received a John and Mary Markle Foundation Fellowship Award for 1956. The award consists of $30,000, to be used for research over a five-year period.

Knobil concentrates his work on the fundamental action of growth hormones and their effects in primates. He is one of twenty-three medical scientists receiving a Markle Award for 1956.