When Bruce Zetter called me late at night on January 14 with news of Judah Folkman’s passing, my shock and grief were almost as great as when I learned, 8 years earlier, of my own father’s sudden death. I suspect many people shared my reaction, especially fellow researchers in the field of tumor angiogenesis. After all, he was widely acknowledged to be the father of the field, and a doting one ...

tinere talente recrutate de profesorul Thoma Ionescu, a cărui intuiţie în alegerea colaboratorilor, viitorilor profesori de chirurgie, şefi de şcoală la rândul lor, nu a dat niciodată greş. Născut la 14 mai 1870 în oraşul Bârlad, acest fiu strălucit al pământului Moldovei, a reuşit prin calităţile sale înnăscute, dar mai ales printr-o muncă ordonată şi neobosită, să făurească o operă nepieritoa...

CURRENT ONCOLOGY—VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 4 Copyright © 2008 Multimed Inc. On January 14, a bright light in the field of cancer research was extinguished with the sudden death of Dr. Judah Folkman. Folkman first introduced the concept of tumour angiogenesis as a key factor in tumour growth and a target for tumour therapy in 1970. Despite the great skepticism accorded his work, he persisted in his st...

Max L. Birnstiel When I first met Max in Zurich in the fall of 1974, ‘‘Switzerland’’ seemed to be written all over him. I had just arrived from the United States, and his reserved politeness, his aversion to jokes, and his habit of neither wasting nor mincing his words all fitted the cliché of the Swiss German. My impression was reinforced when he told me that his paternal ancestors had been gu...

The sudden and unexpected death ofCharles Schmitt is a distressing personal loss to his many friends. It also represents a major blow to the academic community. Charles Schmitt's phenomenal productivity already established him among major scholars. The best was still to come. Work was well advanced on his vast bibliographical survey of editions and commentaries on Aristotle, which was under pre...