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UNIVERSITY NEWS
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has announced the proposed nomination of Prof. Ludwig Halberstaedter as head of a new department of radiobiology at the University. Professor Halberstaedter, who is now in charge of the Station for Cancer Therapy at the Rothschild Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, is internationally recognized as an expert in the treatment of malignant tumors. Other appointments to be proposed for the new Department of Cancer Research include that of Dr. H. A. Krebs, formerly of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute, Berlin-Dalhem, who is now at the University of Cambridge, England, and that of Dr. Leonid Doljansky, formerly of the University Institute of Pathology of Berlin, who is now at the University of Copenhagen. For the first time since the founding of the Hebrew University, the government of Palestine is supporting three research projects, including the control of malaria and