Brian Stanley Smith (1932–2018)

Brian Druker and Charles Sawyers receive the 2011 ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award.

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) was the first cancer to be linked to a clearly defined genetic defect, a chromosomal translocation that generates a constitutively active tyrosine kinase. In the 1990s, Brian Druker and Charles Sawyers (Figure 1) collaborated to develop the targeted therapies that transformed CML from a fatal disease to one that boasts a 90% cure rate. Their work has been wide...

Polarizations Brian

If A is an abelian variety over a field, then to give a projective embedding of A is more or less to give an ample line bundle on A. Over C, such data can be expressed in terms of a positive-definite Riemann form on the homology lattice. Hence, we consider ample line bundles on general abelian varieties to be a “positivity” structure. In a sense that will be explained, just as we view abelian v...

2 Brian

In this paper the authors investigate infinite-dimensional representations L in blocks of the relative (parabolic) category OS for a complex simple Lie algebra, having the property that the cohomology of the nilradical with coefficients in L “looks like” the cohomology with coefficients in a finite-dimensional module, as in Kostant’s theorem. A complete classification of these “Kostant modules”...

Using Stanley Cavell

Brian Zuckerman