Paris’ Biennale (1959-85)

West African Artists at the Venice Biennale

Risk of cancer in patients treated with human pituitary growth hormone in the UK, 1959-85: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND Growth hormone raises serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor IGF-I, which is mitogenic and antiapoptotic. There is evidence that raised endogenous levels of growth hormone and IGF-I might be associated with increased risk of certain solid cancers, but there have been no data on long-term risks of solid cancers after growth hormone treatment. METHODS We did a cohort stud...

Université Paris Diderot — Paris 7

This thesis deals with statistical questions raised by the analysis of highdimensional genomic data for cancer research. In the first part, we study asymptotic properties of multiple testing procedures that aim at controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR), that is, the expected False Discovery Proportion (FDP) among rejected hypotheses. We develop a versatile formalism to calculate the asympto...

Mikael Passare ( 1959 – 2011 )

Mikael Passare was a brilliant mathematician who died much too early. In this chapter we present a sketch of his work and life. Mikael was born in Västerås, Sweden, on 1959 January 01, and pursued a fast and brilliant career as a mathematician. He started his studies at Uppsala University in the fall of 1976 while still a highschool student, merely seventeen and a half. He finished high school ...

Alan Wolffe (1959–2001)

Lab Chiefs in the history of the NIH. Alan Wolffe, an internationally recognized investigator The Laboratory of Molecular Embryology was quickly in chromatin research, died May 26 as a result of injuries organized with Alan’s characteristic vigor and intensity. suffered in a traffic accident in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, He recruited a strong group of junior faculty, all of whom where he was atten...