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                                    Contact: Marguerite Beck
                                     
     CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Feb. 8--Maria C. Freire, a graduate of
the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been named
Director of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), which serves
as the principal agent for the research institutions of the Public
Health Service -- the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration -- in carrying out
the technology transfer policies of the U.S. Government.
     Freire earned her Ph.D. degree in biophysics at U.Va. in 1981,
and has completed postgraduate work in immunology at the University
and in virology at the University of Tennessee.
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                                                February 7, 1995