Faculty Members win honors from Obama

Earlier this month, President Obama awarded 96 researchers with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers – an honor bestowed by the US Government to science professionals in the early stages of their research careers. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their role…

The Brain Prize: 2012 winners

We’re delighted to congratulate Neuroscience, Sensory Systems Section Head Christine Petit (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) on recently being awarded the Brain Prize by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (GLEBRF).

Royal Society – new fellows and foreign members announced

The Royal Society is a fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society aims to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage its development and use. Each year the Royal Society elects 44 Fellows and 8 Foreign Members, and the…

David Bennett

Sadly, we report the death of David Bennett, former Section Head of the ‘Acute Cardiovascular Problems’ section. Our chairman, Vitek Tracz said, David Bennett was an outstanding doctor, a committed researcher and a brilliant organiser. Above all, he was the most wonderful and caring person, and a very dear friend. I owe much to him.…

Professor Andrzej Szczeklik

It is with regret that we mark the death of Andrzej Szczeklik, Faculty Member in the Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Faculty, earlier this month. Please read his obituary in the latest issue of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine.