Laudatio: Francesco Parisi

Laudatio Nicole Le Douarin

On behalf of the ISDB it is my privilege and honour to introduce to you the Ross G. Harrison prize winner, Nicole Le Douarin. It is hard fo me to imagine a more deserving recipient. The prize is named after Ross Harrison, a founding father of tissue culture and of hetero-specific grafting. In his experiments, Ross Harrison described a number of chimerae in which heads of dark Rana silvatica lav...

Laudatio to Professor Fletcher B. Taylor

For more than a half-century, cardiovascular scientist Fletcher B. Taylor, Jr., M.D., (portrayed above) has made important contributions to preclinical, translational and clinical research in vascular biology, coagulation and pathophysiology of sepsis. His work in the laboratory led to the creation of a lifesaving drug – the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for severe sepsis. So, the a...

Francesco Boato

Francesco Blast

Hog thyroid tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1, phenylpyruvate keto-enol isomerase), an enzyme which is believed to play a role in the biosynthesis of thyroxine, has been purified over lOOO-fold. The purification procedure involves a heat step at 70”, gel f&ration on Sephadex G-100, ion exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl Sephadex C-50, and, finally, gel titration on Sephadex G-50. The enzyme is homo...

De Francesco 8 pages

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) will continue to be a serious global health threat for many years to come because of the chronic nature of the infection, its high prevalence and the significant morbidity of the resulting disease. Recently, a small number of molecules have produced encouraging results in proof-of-concept clinical trials. At the same time, preclinical evidence is accumulating that develo...