Albert Heim (1849-1937)

Prof. Dr. med. Urs Heim

On July 25, 2013 Prof. Dr. med. Urs Heim passed away. With him one of the grand personalities of European trauma and orthopedic surgery left us. His work and his aura went far beyond the borders of his native country Switzerland. Urs Heim (Figure 1) was born on April 4, 1924 in Zurich. After attending school in Switzerland and France he started his studies in the field of human medicine in the ...

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Homeoproteins of the Engrailed family are involved in the patterning of mesencephalic boundaries through a mechanism classically ascribed to their transcriptional functions. In light of recent reports on the paracrine activity of homeoproteins, including Engrailed, we asked whether Engrailed intercellular transfer was also involved in brain patterning and boundary formation. Using time-controll...

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ( 1849 - 1936 )

Our mouth waters when we think of our favourite food, and so does that of a dog. But can we know what a dog is thinking about? An experimental entry to a dog's mind was achieved by Pavlov through a rather convoluted chain of studies performed at the beginning of the century that is now coming to an end. His approach is now common knowledge. If presentation of food is preceded every time by a be...

Albert Fry

Albert Conlisk

Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Transport of multivalent electrolyte mixtures in microand nanochannels Report Title The major goal of this research is to understand charged biomolecules in a biofluid flowing through a microor nanochannel interact with a charged surface in the presence of an applied electric field pa...