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SIR PATRICK LAIDLAW has been appointed by the Medical Research Council to be deputy director of the National Institute for Medical Research, and head of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, in succession to the late Capt. S. R. Douglas. Sir Patrick has been a member of the Council's scientific staff at the National Institute since 1922, before which he was lecturer in pathology at Guy's Hospital. He received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1933, and was knighted in 1935. He has latterly been engaged chiefly in the investigation of diseases of man and animals due to infection with ultra-microscopic viruses. His successful work on the cause and prevention of dog distemper, supported by the Field Distemper Fund, is well known. More recently he and his colleagues have demonstrated the presence of a virus in human influenza, and have opened up an experimental line of attack upon this disease by which it is hoped to obtain important results.
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Sir Patrick Laidlaw, F.R.S.. Nature 137, 571–572 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137571c0
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