Joseph Portor, a Leeds Jew, has established a 10,000 pound ($28,000) endowment for research prizes to be awarded to teachers or graduates in psychiatry at either the University of Leeds or the Hebrew University of Jerusalem or to any qualified doctor who practices psychiatry in either England or Israel. The research must be in schizophrenia.
The British Friends of the Hebrew University, which announced the endowment, said that the entire sum of 10,000 pounds would be paid to any qualified person who, in the opinion of a medical advisory board set up in connection with the fund, discovers within the next five years a complete and permanent cure for schizophrenia. The medical board will consist of well known experts who will act in an advisory capacity to the trustees of the fund.
The announcement said that the “barbarous persecution of the Nazis produced a terrible increase in the mental illness of schizophrenia, particularly among the Jews who were the greatest sufferers of that persecution.” The announcement further noted that many of these victims of persecution had found a home in Israel.
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