David M. Farquhar (1927–1985)

David M. Hillis

David Hillis was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and grew up in the Belgian Congo, India, and the United States. His undergraduate training was at Baylor University (BS 1980) and graduate work was at the University of Kansas (PhD 1985). He is currently the Roark Centennial Professor at the University of Texas (Austin). He served as the first Director of the School of Biological Sciences at the Uni...

Profile of David M. Sabatini.

As a young doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, David M. Sabatini was allowed to choose his own research project for his thesis. He chose to investigate the molecular mechanism of rapamycin, a compound with antifungal, antitumor, and immunosuppressant properties. The decision was pivotal, because Sabatini went on to discover the mechanistic target of rapamycin ...

David M. Raup, 1933-2015.

Marilyn Farquhar: From the beginning

F ew people have a perspective on cell biology that can compare to Marilyn Farquhar's. She was there at the very beginning and, over the course of her career, has both witnessed and helped guide the evolution of the fi eld. She has served as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and at Yale. And, as the fi rst head of the Depart-(UCSD), she nurtured the development of th...

The Third David M Lawrence, MD, Chairman's Patient Safety Award.