René Battistini (1928-2017)

Professor Aleksy Poniżyński (1928–2017)

Prof. dr hab. med. Aleksy Poniżyński was born on the 14th of June, 1928 in Bukówiec Górny in the province of Wielkopolska. When the second World War came in September 1939, he was about to attend the 5th grade of an elementary school in Bukówiec. During the Nazi occupation, he worked as a farmhand. After the war, he continued his elementary education in Leszno, where he also completed secondary...

Professeur René HEN

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) display a delayed onset of antidepressant action of several weeks. Past work demonstrated evidence that the 5-HT4 receptor may be a direct target for treating depression and a new hope for fast acting antidepressant treatment. However, the 5-HT4 hypothesis still needs to be validated in models of anxiety/depression. We decided to investigate wheth...

René Favaloro of Our Society

of Our Society A Revival of Paul Dudley White : An Overview of Present Medical Practice and ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 1999 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.12.1525 1999, 99:1525-1537 Circulation http://circ.ahajournals.org/co...

René Jules Dubos.

René Dubos: unearthing antibiotics

In 1939, René Dubos discovered gramicidin-the first clinically tested antibiotic agent. This discovery helped revive the stalled interest in penicillin and launched the era of antibiotics.