Professor Will Head Biochemistry Meeting

John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, has been named president of the Sixth International Congress of Biochemistry, which will take place in New York July 27-31.

Edsall will head the first such congress in the United States; previous ones were held, at three-year intervals in Cambridge, England; Paris, Brussels, Vienna, and Moscow.

Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University, president of the International Union of Biochemistry, the congress's sponsor, announced the appointment in New York.