Doctor To Establish Course In Australia

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 15

Doctor To Establish Course In Australia

The setting up of a course in comparative embryology will be part of the work to be undertaken by Dr M. S. R Smith, formerly of Rangiora, who has been appointed a lecturer at the University of New South Wales school of ana tomy. For the last three years and a half, Dr Smith has been doing post-doctorate research in Britain on a Wellcome Trust research fellowship. For his first year in Britain, Dr Smith was at the University of Bangor in Wales, where he worked closely with Mr I. B. Wilson. They produced a number of papers which were published in scientific journals. For the rest of the time in Britain. Dr Smith was at the University of Southhampton. Although then at separate universities, Dr Smith and Mr Wilson continued to co-oper-ate closely in their work and still had papers on their work published as joint efforts. Dr Smith hopes to continue in Sydney a lot of the work that he began in Britain but “new avenues may open up.” Dr Smith’s research in em-

> brology has placed special em-l i phasis on the process of imi plantation and in particular; precocious cell death in the , lining of the uterus and in • the egg. i Although Britain was short of money it was still one of' the best places in the world' I for research work, especially i in his field—it provided a' i wonderful research climate,' , said Dr Smith. Dr Smith and his family stayed a week in Rangiora i i recently, at the home of his, ! parents, Mr and Mrs S. W. MJ ! Smith, while on the way from i Britain to Sydney to take up! ; the new appointment. Under : . the terms of the Wellcome Fellowship, holders are required to return to work in ' Australia or New Zealand for! ! a period.