Wylie Vale: Neuroendocrine master

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,...

Minireview: CRF and Wylie Vale: a story of 41 amino acids and a Texan with grit.

The structure and full chemical and biological characterization of ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (oCRF) was reported in 1981 by Wylie W. Vale and colleagues working at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA) in temporary barracks located west of the main building of the Salk Institute with a full view of the Pacific (1). It was an extraordinary time in the field of endocrinology, and the compe...

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 ...

Profile: Dorothy Wylie.

ambitious 18-year-old was ready to begin her nursing career, even though her father would have preferred her to do secretarial work. The problem was that the two hospitals to which she applied accepted nursing students at age 19, and she didn’t want to wait. Undeterred, the young woman further aggrieved her staunch Protestant family by enrolling at the Catholic St. Michael’s Hospital. That woma...

Sir James Wylie, the Russian McGrigor.