Memorial Meeting to John Homans, M.D.

The Malcolm Campbell Memorial Meeting

Introduction to iron works...The John Beard Memorial Symposium.

The Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University hosted a symposium entitled "Iron Works…The John Beard Memorial Symposium" in University Park, PA, on November 2, 2009. This one-day scientific symposium was held in honor of the late John Beard and was organized by Jere Haas, Shannon Kelleher, Terry Etherton, James Connor, and Gordon Jensen. The goal of the symposium w...

John H. Laragh, MD: Clinician-Scientist

John Laragh is an outstanding clinician-scientist who discovered that renin, a mostly forgotten kidney hormone, causes essential hypertension1,2 and its complications.3 This discovery led to two new classes of drugs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which revolutionized the treatment of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease...

10th Biennial Helene Harris Memorial Trust meeting.

Improving the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients is a major challenge to scientists and clinicians. At a recent multidisciplinary meeting in Washington DC, advances in identification of precursor lesions, progress in disease biomarkers and animal models, the promise of nanotechnology, and strategies for manipulation of the innate and adaptive immune response offered prospects for real progres...

Progress on NIMH initiatives (memorial theme for Wayne Fenton, MD).

The articles in this special issue demonstrate the extraordinary breadth of Wayne Fenton’s career. His work touched the lives of the patients he was treating, their families, and the larger community of researchers. Fenton combined vision with leadership to jump-start the field on a uniquely broad collaboration for therapeutic discovery. Although his tenure at National Institute of Mental Healt...