Remembrance of Dr. Colin Gray

Dr. Colin R. Tribe

Most medical lives are spent being busy. When we are honest with ourselves, usually in the early hours of the morning, we know that we haven't given enough time to colleagues, wives, children and other members of our families. Outside medicine we all meet friends who say as much, usually with exceptional politeness. A successful academic colleague, the son of a retired general medical practitio...

Dr. Colin Tribe

In Remembrance of Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

People the world over know about your academic and medical accomplishments. I would like to share with your colleagues, the Mel that in the 1980s I got to know and spend time with outside the laboratory (although science and how science can benefit “your” babies was just a breath away in anything we did). The time I really got to talk with Mel outside the Harvard confines was when I first roome...

In Remembrance of Dr. Jared James Grantham, JASN's Founding Editor-in-Chief.

Jared James Grantham, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), passed away peacefully on January 22, 2017 surrounded by his family and their love, and eulogized by an outpouring of remembrances and tributes as his passing became known. Born (1936), raised, and educated in Kansas, and with a professional career essentially centered at the Universi...

In remembrance.

“John was an inspiring teacher and experimentalist. His educational passion was creating hands-on experiments built from ordinary parts you can find at any hardware store, what he lovingly called ‘mulch,’” said MIT senior lecturer in physics, and former King student, Peter Dourmashkin ’76 (physics), ’78 (math), PhD ’84. “He was MITx before MITx.” King was born in London and educated in France, ...