Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

Maccabaean Prize Essay, 1968

Dedicatory essay on John C. Fletcher.

Laudatio to Professor Fletcher B. Taylor

For more than a half-century, cardiovascular scientist Fletcher B. Taylor, Jr., M.D., (portrayed above) has made important contributions to preclinical, translational and clinical research in vascular biology, coagulation and pathophysiology of sepsis. His work in the laboratory led to the creation of a lifesaving drug – the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for severe sepsis. So, the a...