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the hope that through the knowledge of the hormones of the pituitary and adrenal glands we'll gain new weapons against cancer and other diseases. And although he receives some support from the National Institutes of Health, the problem of making enough growth hormone which has been shown to affect the growth of dwarfs is still unsolved. To get growth hormone to be effective in humans to have to get it from human pituitaries and the supply of this is extremely scarce and hard to get. In fact, he's been struggling for years to get enough so that he could figure out the structure so that the hormone could be synthesized, but so far he hasn't been able to do this, as of 1963.

He also has shown in the last few years that there's a lipilytic agent in ACTH which probably controls the deposition of fat in our bodies and Up john is at present trying to make this lipilytic fraction of ACTH, but it seems to be a complicated thing to do. However, it might be a wonderful solution to people's problems of obesity, and also it might relate to the whole field of arteriosclerosis.

Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals seldom want to put the money into solving these problems until the people in the university laboratories have brought them far along, as vast sums are necessary to make new products, and they depend very much on people like C.H.Li to give them leads on what the structure of new hormones may be and leads on how the hormones may be manufactured.

This simplifies the process for them, doesn't it?