With regret, we mark the death of Dr Tony Pawson. Tony was a research leader at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He joined us as a Head of Faculty in Cell Biology in 2001, right from the beginning of the Faculty of 1000 project. Many have paid tribute, not…
It is with sadness that we note the death of Professor Edward Hayes, former Faculty Member in Infectious Diseases, who passed away last month. Professor Hayes was the Head of the Department of Public Health at the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), and joined F1000Prime in November 2005 as a member of the…
It is with great sadness that we note the tragic death of Professor Roger Brumback, former Faculty Member in Neurological Disorders, who passed away last month. Professor Brumback was professor and former chairman of the department of Pathology at Creighton University, and joined F1000Prime in March 2011 as a member of the Developmental & Pediatric…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Dick Heinegård, former F1000Prime Section Head in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, who passed away on May 1st. Dick Heinegård was Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden from 1983, and joined F1000Prime in 2005 as head of the Cartilage Disorders…
Sadly, we note the death of Dr Daniel Traber, former Faculty Member in Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, who passed away in September last year. Dr Traber worked for over 50 years at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) as a professor and research scientist of anaesthesiology and neuroscience, and joined the Metabolic Disorders…
It is with sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Christine Wijman, who passed away on the 28th of February. An expert in neurocritical care and Director of Critical Care Neurology at Stanford University, Dr Wijman joined the Cerebrovascular Disease Section of the Neurological Disorders Faculty of F1000Prime in September 2008. An obituary…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Kuan-Teh Jeang, who passed away on the 27th of January. Dr Jeang was a prominent researcher at the NIH for 27 years, and renowned for his work in retroviruses. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology and an editorial board member of numerous…
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Faculty Member Bernard Caillou, who passed away in July 2012. Dr Caillou worked at the Institut Gustave Roussy for 40 years, and joined the Thyroid Section of the Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty of F1000 in November 2011. Our sincere condolences to his family and…
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.…
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.
