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DR. A. HADDOW, who has been appointed to succeed Prof. Kennaway as professor and director, has been working at the Royal Cancer Hospital since 1937. Dr. Haddow was a student and later lecturer in bacteriology in the University of Edinburgh, where he worked on problems connected with the phenomena of dissociation and variation of bacteria and on the pathology of growth. Since 1935, when he first described the growth-retarding effect of the carcinogenic substances, which had been prepared at the Royal Cancer Hospital, Dr. Haddow has carried out a great deal of work on the inhibition of both normal and malignant growth. He has also published work on the effects of synthetic œstrogens on cancer in man, the action of urethane in leukæmia, the carcinogenic activity of derivatives of aminostilbene and on the curious effect of certain iso-alloxazines in inducing colour change in the hair of animals. Dr. Haddow's long connexion with the work of the Chester Beatty Research Institute of the Royal Cancer Hospital and his energy and enthusiasm should help to maintain the outstanding position which the Institute has in the field of cancer research. He is a member of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign.
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Dr. Alexander Haddow. Nature 158, 51 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158051b0
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