Hellerman, Leslie

Chinard, Erancis P., and Hellerman, Leslie, Determination of Sulfhydryl... 

Moulder s contention of metabolic similarities would eventually be shown to be incorrect however, examination of the basis for his conclusion allows an appreciation of how concepts and techniques can influence interpretation. In 1944, the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development was created with a Board for the Coordination of Malaria Studies to better understand the mode of action of anti-malarials in order to protect United States troops in Southeast Asia, North America and the Pacific. A member of that Board was W. Mansfield Clark (1884-1964), Professor of Physiological Chemistry (1927-1952) at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His colleague in the department was Leslie Hellerman (1896-1981) whose work focused on metallo-enzyme functions. Hellerman and his student, Marianna Bovarnick (1911-1995), involved themselves in the testing of the biochemical effects of atabrine. Another malaria project was sponsored at Harvard under A. Baird Hastings, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, also a member of the Board. Eric Ball (1904—1979) was a graduate student and then a faculty member in Mansfield Clark s department at Johns Hopkins (1930-1939) and spent 1... 

Leslie Hellerman, Department of Physiological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore 6, Md. 

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