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AT the death of the late Dr. George Walker of Baltimore his will provided for the formation of a corporation to be known as the Finney-Howell Research Foundation, the purpose of which was to be the support of “research work into the cause or causes and the treatment of cancer”. The will directed that the surplus income from the assets of the Foundation together with the principal sum should be expended within a period of ten years to support a number of fellowships in cancer research, each with an annual stipend of two thousand dollars, “in such universities, laboratories or other institutions, wherever situated, as may be approved by the Board of Directors”. Fellowships will be awarded each year on the second Wednesday of March, beginning March 1938. These fellowships will be awarded for a period of one year with the possibility of renewal up to three years. Further information can be obtained from the secretary of the Foundation, Dr. William A. Fisher, Medical and Chirurgical Facility Building, 1211 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Finney-Howell Research Foundation. Nature 140, 1009 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401009a0
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