Francis Huntington Rankin, M.D.

Fred W Rankin, MD: a man of medicine during a time of war and change.

Daptomycin: from the mountain to the clinic, with essential help from Francis Tally, MD.

Daptomycin has been approved and successfully launched for the treatment of complicated skin and skin-structure infections caused by gram-positive pathogens [1] and bacteremia and right-sided endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus, including strains that are resistant to methicillin or other antibiotics [2]. The development of the drug, however, was not straightforward; it involved a cast of...

Francis Barr

influenza programme chief, reported an increase in the number of cluster cases reported recently, with the biggest being a family of five cases. There have been seven cluster cases in Vietnam, all within single families, most recently in the northern province of Haiphong. No relative has been proved to have passed the disease to another in these cases but, Horby said, " the onset dates could be...

Francis Wolenski

Modularity of the Rankin

In memory of my father Sundaram Ramakrishnan (SRK) Contents 1. Introduction 2. Notation and preliminaries 3. Construction of ⊠ : A(GL(2)) × A(GL(2)) → A(GL(4)) 3.1. Relevant objects and the strategy 3.2. Weak to strong lifting, and the cuspidality criterion 3.3. Triple product L-functions: local factors and holomorphy 3.4. Boundedness in vertical strips 3.5. Modularity in the good case 3.6. A d...