Obituary: Sir Peter Venables

Obituary: Peter Laurberg

Peter Laurberg, Denmark, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, deceased unexpectedly on 20 June 2016. When walking by foot in Tiflis, Georgia together with his wife shortly after his 71st birthday, he was involved into a car accident. Whereas his wife survived, Peter Laurberg died. Peter Laurberg was worldwide one of the leading thyroidologi...

obituary: peter laurberg

Obituary - In Memoriam: Prof. Peter Hausen

We were deeply saddened by the news that our scientific mentor, Prof. Peter Hausen, passed away on May 28th of this year. Peter Hausen began his scientific career as a Ph.D. student with Werner Schäfer at the former Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Virology in Tübingen, completing his thesis on the molecular biology of the mouse encophalomyelitis virus in 1961. After a stay at the Weizmann Instit...

Sir Peter Brian Medawar ’ S Transplantation Research

Sir Peter Medawar experimentally demonstrated immunological tolerance through his tissue transplantation experiment in the early and mid-1950s. He made a central contribution to modern biomedicine by showing that genetically distinct cells introduced into a body during its foetal phase could not only be permanently tolerated but also make the host accept any subsequent skin grafts from the orig...

Managing Failure : Sir Peter Brian Medawar

Sir Peter Medawar experimentally demonstrated immunological tolerance through his tissue transplantation experiment in the early and mid-1950s. He made a central contribution to modern biomedicine by showing that genetically distinct cells introduced into a body during its foetal phase could not only be permanently tolerated but also make the host accept any subsequent skin grafts from the orig...