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                                      Contact:  Katherine Jackson
     CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Feb. 10--Three University of Virginia
post-doctoral fellows received grants from the Wyeth Pediatrics
Neonatology Research Program to help support their scientific
research.  
     Fellowships were presented to Drs. Donna Cothran, Patricia
Hagan and Felice Heller at pediatric ground rounds Jan. 26. 
     A national steering committee selected by the American Academy
of Pediatrics independently reviewed the grant applications and
determined which projects would be funded. Hospital-based research
is a key element of the Academy of Pediatrics' focus.
     U.Va. received three of the 88 awards presented for the 1994-
95 academic year. The awarding of three such grants at one
institution is highly unusual but a testimony to the abilities of
the skilled preparation by the department and its director, Dr.
John Kattwinkel, says Wyeth officials. 
     Wyeth Pediatrics Neonatology Research Grants Program was
created two years ago to help support research carried out by post-
doctoral fellows in neonatology. Wyeth Pediatrics is based in
Midlothian. 
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                                         February 9, 1995