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Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, NEST Laboratory, Pisa, Italy Read all

Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT & HHMI, Cambridge, MA, USA. The mechanisms that regulate organismal growth (mass accumulation) and coordinate it with the ... Read all

Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal

Department of Agricultural & Bio-systems Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Introduction Most developing countries have an economy strongly dominated by the ... Read all

Commemoration

Vera Rubin was one of those who revolutionized our understanding of galaxies and cosmic structure by confirming the existence of dark matter. She died on Christmas Day 2016 at the ... Read all

Commemoration

Professor Félix Malu wa Kalenga died in April 2011 at the age of 74 years. He was born on September 1936 in Boma, province of Congo. From the very beginning he was a brilliant ... Read all

Commemoration

Fotis Kafatos, the distinguished Greek biologist, passed away on November 18, 2017, in Heraklion, at the age of 77, after a long illness. He had a brilliant academic carrier in ... Read all

Commemoration

Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge, I encountered a fellow student, who seemed unsteady on his feet and spoke with difficulty. I learnt that he’d arrived two ... Read all

Commemoration

Günter Blobel was a cell biologist born 81 years ago in Silesia, eastern Germany, now part of Poland. He had a colourful life. He had an idyllic childhood during the Second World ... Read all

Self-Presentation

Three episodes shaped my research and professional careers First Episode 1.     1974: returned to Sudan after obtaining my Doctorate degree in mathematics from ... Read all

Self-Presentation

Like Dr Betzig, I’m also from Michigan, eight years older, also grew up in the Detroit area and went to the Jesuit High School. Now, everybody of my generation who was male was ... Read all

Self-Presentation

I grew up as a middle child of three brothers in a suburb of New York City and in this family education was not merely emphasised, it was the reason for our existence. Firstly, all ... Read all

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