Vale Alison Lee

Ron Vale

What turned you onto science in the first place? I had a wonderful mother (a nonscientist and former actress) who frequently took me to the Natural History Museum and Science and Technology Museum in the Los Angeles area as a young child. I loved these museums and worked at the latter as a high school student; nothing glorious — setting up displays and working cash registers, but I got to hang ...

Alison Cawsey

Alison Cawsey passed away in June 2009. She was a remarkable person and her death is a profound professional and personal loss. Born in 1963, Alison grew up in the south of England and, from 1981 to 1984, studied Natural Sciences at Jesus College Cambridge. During this period she met her life partner Richard. Alison always excelled academically but not always in the sporting arena; however, at ...

Wylie Vale: neuroendocrine master.

W ylie Vale, professor and head of the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at The Salk Institute, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and leader in the field of neuroendocrinology, passed away in his sleep on January 3, 2012 while vacationing in Hawaii. He was 70 years old and is survived by his wife Betty, his daughters Elizabeth and Susannah, his granddaughter Celeste,...

Wccmt Case Study – Alison Ritchie

The Vale of Leven health promotion project.

A two stage health promotion programme is in progress in the Vale of Leven in Dunbartonshire. The first stage has been completed within a local factory (Polaroid UK Limited), the largest private employer in the district. A total of 1205 employees, representing 87% of the workforce, took part in the programme and were initially screened for coronary artery risk factors. Blood pressure, serum cho...