Hollywood producer and cancer activist Laura Ziskin Dies of breast cancer. Cancer Research Institute to posthumously award Ziskin the 2011 Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research.
It is with immense sorrow and deep regret that we share the news of the passing of Laura Ziskin, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). She was a staunch advocate of the value of cancer research in saving lives, and was a beloved friend and member of our AACR family.
Acclaimed film producer and cancer activist Laura Ziskin died today at her home in Santa Monica at the age of 61. Ziskin, who lived with breast cancer for seven years, is survived by her husband, screenwriter Alvin Sargent, with whom she frequently collaborated; daughter, producer Julia Barry, and son-in-law, writer Eli Dansky.
John Davies, a prominent attorney, civic leader, former University of California regent and UC San Diego Foundation trustee died on May 20 in San Diego, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 76.
Thomas Eisner, a world-renowned authority on animal behavior, chemical ecology and evolution, and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, died from complications of Parkinson’s disease Friday, March 25, at home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 81.
Steven H. Shiffrin, First Amendment expert and Professor of Law at Cornell University, comments on the Westoboro Baptist Church protest at the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.
A memorial Mass will be said on Friday, Nov. 12 for former Loyola University Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Roque Pifarré, who performed the first heart transplant in Illinois.
Gerd G. Maul, Ph.D., of Wynnewood, Pa., a faculty member of The Wistar Institute since 1973, died Monday, August 23 at the age of 70. A respected scientist, as well as an accomplished artist and photographer, Dr. Maul led a distinguished career in the study of the structure and function of the cell nucleus – the “control center” of the cell – and its response to viral infection and stress.
UC San Diego Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, Frank Garland, PhD, died Tuesday, August 17 in La Jolla, California, after a year-long battle with illness. Garland was also Technical Director of the Naval Health Research Center.
Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of Congress in history, often credited the law degree he earned in 1963 from American University’s Washington College of Law with instilling in him a new level of confidence.
The U.S. Senate lost one of its staunchest defenders and most influential leaders with the death Monday, June 28, of long-serving Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, says Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Pop-culture author and librarian Rob Weiner compiled a bibliography showing Jackson influenced fields from medicine and law to chemistry and engineering.
John Cowee, former dean at the University of California, Berkeley business school, died on May 15, 2010, in Denver, Colo., at the age of 91 of natural causes.
UC San Diego Emeritus Professor of Pathology Harvey Akio Itano, MD, PhD, a distinguished physician-scientist who was the first Japanese-American to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences, died Saturday, May 8 in La Jolla, California, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 89.
Barton Childs, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a legendary geneticist and teacher who influenced the practice of generations of physicians and shaped their understanding of inherited disease, died Feb. 18 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital after a short illness. He was 93.
Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, founder of the academic discipline of international health and a man of spiritual conviction who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people, passed away February 4 from prostate cancer. He was 93.
Thomas Payne, associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the death of J.D. Salinger and his literary legacy. Salinger, 91, died Wednesday at his home in New Hampshire.
Michele Dillon, religion scholar and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the significance of Oral Roberts in the U.S. evangelical movement. Roberts died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. He was 91.
Dr. Erminio (Mimo) Costa, retired director of the psychiatric institute and professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and world-renowned expert in neuropsychopharmacology, has died.
William Ganz, M.D., an internationally-recognized leader and inventor in heart medicine, died Tuesday night of natural causes. He was 90.
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