In Memoriam: Sydney Brenner
APRIL 5, 2019
Sydney Brenner, whose pioneering insights expanded the frontiers of molecular biology, has passed away at age 92.
David Weatherall Passes Away at 85
DEC. 10, 2018
David Weatherall, whose pioneering discoveries concerning genetic diseases of the blood were recognized with a Lasker Special Achievement Award, has passed away at 85.
Remembering a Founding Father of Plasmid Biology
MAY 11, 2018
Stanley Falkow, one of the great microbe hunters of all time, has died at age 84.
In Memoriam: James Holland
MARCH 26, 2018
James Holland, an early proponent of chemotherapy to treat cancer, has passed away at 92.
Geneticist Charles Yanofsky Passes Away at 92
MARCH 23, 2018
Pioneering geneticist Charles Yanofsky, who established the co-linear relationship between genes and proteins, has died at age 92.
In Memoriam: Günter Blobel
FEB. 21, 2018
Günter Blobel, whose fruitful pursuit of the signal hypothesis yielded a 1993 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research, has passed away at 81.
Thomas Starzl Passes Away at 90
MARCH 5, 2017
Thomas Starzl, an innovative and determined surgeon who performed the first successful human liver transplant, has died at age 90.
In Memoriam: Oliver Smithies
JAN. 12, 2017
Oliver Smithies, whose research into gene targeting paved the way for the development of a powerful technology to create animal models of human diseases, has died at 91.
Peter Nowell Remembered
JAN. 11, 2017
Peter Nowell, whose investigations of a chromosomal abnormality changed the course of cancer research, has died at age 88.
Remembering a Great Cancer Biologist
JULY 13, 2016
Alfred Knudson, a 1998 Lasker Laureate whose two-hit hypothesis explained that malignancies can occur because of a loss or inactivation of both copies of a gene that normally functions to inhibit cell growth, which we now call a tumor suppressor gene, has passed away at age 93.
