Med School Receives More Aid for Studies Of Cardioid Diseases

The Medical School has received a grant of $3,480 for its research program on heart disease from the Massachusetts Heart Association. The gift was one of six presented to Boston hospitals and research centers.

Another step forward in the Medical School's expanding research program will be marked by Friday's opening of a new four-story wing to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The new unit was made possible by a grant from the National Heart Institute, and is designed especially for study and treatment of heart disease and related sicknesses.

The new laboratory is one of the results of a long range program begun in 1948 to coordinate and improve facilities for cardiac research at the Medical School. The unit houses five laboratories for basic research, an eight-bed ward for close observation of patients with special diseases and a special room for study of a recently developed artificial kidney.

Other institutions which received grants from the Massachusetts Heart Association are the Boston State Hospital $3,300; the New England Center Hospital, $3,850; and the Mallory Institute of Pathology, $1,100. Boston University's Medical School received funds totaling $8,775, and the Beth Israel Hospital received $5,500.

Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, chairman of the group's Research Allocations Committee, announced Monday that the Association donated $90,986 collected from the Heart Fund drive, last year to research institutions.