In memoriam Bart Hageraats (1950-2014)

In Memoriam William Allan Light (1950-2002)

William Allan Light, known to his friends as ‘‘Will,’’ died on Sunday, December 8, 2002. He was at his home, Gartree House, Illston-on-the-Hill, near Leicester in England, when he was felled by a heart attack. He was 52 years old. Will is survived by his wife, the former Anita Edwards, by his mother, Mrs. Mary Light of Lancaster, and by a sister, Helen Johnson. At the time of death, Will was an...

Carlos Margarit in memoriam, 1950-2005.

In Memoriam: Sandy Ford (1950–2015)

age. To her children, she was a loving mother; to her co-workers, she was a caring human being and dedicated public health worker; to the world, she was a herald of the AIDS epidemic, playing a major role in alerting the world to the onset of this epidemic. In January 1979, Sandy took a position in the Parasitic Diseases Division in the Centers for Disease Control, now the Centers for Disease C...

In memoriam: Costas Drainas (1950-2011).

Constantin (Costas) Drainas, Professor of Biochemical Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece (January 19, 1950) passed away untimely the past July 5, 2011. Costas obtained his BA degree in Biology from the University of Patras on 1972 and his PhD degree in Biochemical Genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland on 1978. After four yea...

Ruggero Bortolami (1926-2014): in memoriam.

Starting with the hypothesis of Judah Folkman that tumor growth is angiogenesis dependent, this area of research has a solid scientific foundation. More than 30 years ago, Folkman found a revolutionary new way to think about cancer. He postulated that in order to survive and grow, tumors require blood vessels and that by cutting off the blood supply a cancer could be starved into remission. Sev...