and animated man with a dazzling set of credentials, including over 18 500 citations of his research output. What I immediately liked about him was his pragmatic determination to improve the quality of clinical performance by whatever means comes to hand. Ian Jones does not see himself as a purist researcher: 'The ultimate goal of research is making things better for people with these condition...

We lost Professor Doctor Ahmet Birand as a result of a deplorable accident on May 21, 2017. He was born in İstanbul in 1936. He went to primary school in İstanbul and completed his primary education in Ankara in 1948. He completed his secondary and high school education at Ankara Atatürk High School. He enrolled at Ankara University School of Medicine in 1955, passed his doctoral tests and was ...

T. A. Burton (denoted by T. A. throughout this paper) was born on September 7, 1935 on a farm in Kansas, the fifth child of seven in the family. It was a peak of the Great Depression and when the dust storms wrecked havoc on the Mid-Western United States. Entire buildings were buried in the dust. The economy was so poor that farmers turned their livestock loose and left the area. At the age of ...

E-mail address: jan 1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Lessons learnt from Hurricane Ike last autumn are now guiding John Mendelsohn in his management of the largest US cancer institute in the current financial down turn. ‘‘We face critical financial pressures due to decreasing federal research support, cutbacks in Medicaid and Medicare, reduced philanthropic gifts, and increases in ...

Laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC and Institute of Biomedicine of the Brazilian Semiarid/ INCT/CNPq: MD, MSc; MD, PhD, Full Professor of Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC; MD, Medical Doctor of the Brasília Base Hospital; MSc, PhD, Associate Professor of the Medicine Course of the Christus Faculty; DVM; DVM, PhD, Professor of the Superior School of Agriculture...