Med School Grant

THE Dartmouth Medical School has been awarded an unrestricted grant of $105,443 by the National Institutes of Health to strengthen its research and research-training programs.

Dr. Luther L. Terry, Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service, who announced the grant, said it was one of 141 totaling $18,706,123 recently made to schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy.

They were the first of the awards that will be made annually under the new General Research Support Grant program of the National Institutes of Health. Heretofore most NIH grants have been made for specific projects proposed by individual investigators.

"To some extent," Dr. Terry said, "this procedure has limited the autonomy of grantee institutions and investigators in controlling the character and direction of their health-related research and research-training activities. The new form of support will afford more freedom and enable the institutions to assume greater responsibility in carrying out their programs."

The amount of the award was based on the total support from outside sources for research under way at the institution. This year the Dartmouth Medical School is receiving $1,200,000 in outside support for research projects.

The Medical School's funds under the new grant have not been allocated specifically as yet, but they may be used to support research resources, such as animal facilities; for personnel, such as staff salaries; for research or research training projects, including the preliminary exploration of promising ideas; and for certain other activities for which Public Health Service support no longer will be available, such as research-project grants of less than $2,000 a year.

The funds cannot be used for construction, renovation, or alteration of space.