DR. C. S. HICKS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18303, 10 February 1925, Page 7

DR. C. S. HICKS.

PHYSIOLOGIST FOB THE MAYO FOUNDATION. (ebom oxrs, own cobbsspoumsht.) LONDON, December .24. It was only;in January, 1924", that. Dr. C. S. Hioks (Dunedin) took up his research work at Cambridge under the Beit Fellowship Trust, and already he has had offered to him an important position in the United States; —a posi-. tion, moreover, - which has not been tilled for fave years. . : This Dr. Hicks has- accepted, and he will become Chemical physiologist on the ltesearch Staff of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Research, at Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A. The position was offered him as the result of his work on the Chemical Aspect of Goitre at the Sir William Dunn Bio-chemical Institute, Cambridge, under Professor F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.B. The selection of the New Zea*lander may be considered _ as a great compliment to Otago Medical School. Ever since he left the 'Dominion, Dr. Hicks has made full use of every possible opportunity to meet men eminent in the world of medical research. During the Easter vacation, when he was in Germany and Switzerland,_ for instance, he (visited hospitals ; universities and research laboratories, and met men of note, including Professor Hess (Physics), Professor Hedinger (Pathologist), and Dr. Nagler (Chemistry). In the latter country he was keenly interested in the attempts to grapple with goitre, and in London he met many who are specialising in goitre work. During the summer vacation Dr. Hicks went to the United States, primarily to carry out a mission on behalf of Sir William Dunn Bio-chemistry School —namely, to bring back a strain of special mice that spontaneously develop interesting species which was the outcome of eight years' work by Miss Maud Sly, of the University of Chicago. H© visited the Mayo Institute at the same time, and it is quite possible that his personal contact with the principals of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Research may have had a good deal to do with his selection for the post of Chemical Physiologist, for Dr. Hicks always strikes one as being particularly keen about his work and eager to take every _ opportunity to make the most of his time while in Europe.