Med School Names 2 Associate Professors

Two research men have joined the permanent staff of the Medical School, Dean George P. Berry announced this week. Dr. Jordi Folch-Pi and Dr. Nathan Bill Talbot '32 both received associate professorship.

Dr. Folch-Pi, who has made studies of the chemistry of the brain, becomes associate professor of Biological Chemistry at the McLean Hospital, where he will continue as chief of the biochemical laboratory.

A native of Spain, he came to the United States in 1936 as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow and joined the Medical School in 1944, when he became Director of Scientific Research at the McLean Hospital in Waverly.

Dr. Talbot, now associate professor of Pediatrics at Mass. General, has been investigating hormones and other gland secretions, including ACTH, and their effect on body growth. He has also dealt with obesity and dwarfism in children.