University of Virginia Library

Anatomy MD
Receives Two
Study Grants

Dr. Robert R. Cardell, associate
professor of anatomy at the
University School of Medicine,
has been awarded two research
grants totaling $157,742 for
studies on "Subcellular Effects
of Metabolic Hormones in Rat
Liver Cells."

Of this sum, $107,742 is a
three-year award from the National
Institutes of Health and
$50,000 is an award from the
National Science Foundation for
the purchase of an electron
microscope.

The electron microscope for
anatomy, one of several recently
acquired by the University
of Virginia, will provide the fine
resolution necessary for the
proposed study. With the electron
microscope, the subcellular parts
of the cell are magnified more
than 200,000 times, revealing
components of the cell not visible
with the light microscope.

The studies supported by these
awards are designed to provide
information at the fine structural
level on the action of metabolic
hormones on rat liver cells. It is
the objective of this research
to discover which part of the cell
responds to the administration
of hormones and how this response
is related to the function
of the cell.

Dr. Cardell, who received his
Ph.D. from the University, was
a research associate at Ford Institute
for Medical Research,
Detroit, in 1960-64. Before joining
the department of anatomy
faculty last summer, he was research
associate and lecturer at
the Biological Laboratories, Harvard
University.