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- ↑ "About the Fund". Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ↑ See JCCNewsletter, including lists of fellows.
- ↑ Fee, Elizabeth; Rodman, Anne Clark (October 1985). "Janet Howell Clark: Physiologist and Biophysicist (1889-1969)". The Physiologist . 28 (5): 397–400.
- ↑ "Jessica Polka - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund". Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
