Neuroscience
From today's San Diego Union-Tribune:
Pioneering Alzheimer's scientist at UCSD dies
Thal led efforts to find therapies for the disease
By Cheryl Clark and Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
San Diego Union-Tribune
February 5, 2007
Dr. Leon J. Thal, a Cardiff neuroscientist and international pioneer in Alzheimer's disease, died Saturday after his small plane crashed in the mountains southwest of Borrego Springs.
Thal's plane had taken off from San Diego's Montgomery Field at 6:15 p.m. Saturday and was headed for Borrego Springs, said Bruce Nelson, a Federal Aviation Administration official in Lawndale. The airplane, with only the pilot on board, crashed under unknown circumstances, Nelson said.
Thal was chairman of the neurosciences department at the University of California San Diego. Leslie Franz, a spokeswoman for the university, confirmed late yesterday that Thal died in the crash.
“This is a huge blow to UCSD,” Dr. Henry Powell, a professor of pathology and chairman of the academic senate, said in a statement. “He was a skillful manager of strong-minded people, charming and diplomatic as well as visionary and persuasive.”
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Neuroscience
Obit: Dr. Leon Thal, Alzheimer Research Leader
From today's San Diego Union-Tribune:
Pioneering Alzheimer's scientist at UCSD dies
Thal led efforts to find therapies for the disease
By Cheryl Clark and Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
San Diego Union-Tribune
February 5, 2007
Dr. Leon J. Thal, a Cardiff neuroscientist and international pioneer in Alzheimer's disease, died Saturday after his small plane crashed in the mountains southwest of Borrego Springs.
Thal's plane had taken off from San Diego's Montgomery Field at 6:15 p.m. Saturday and was headed for Borrego Springs, said Bruce Nelson, a Federal Aviation Administration official in Lawndale. The airplane, with only the pilot on board, crashed under unknown circumstances, Nelson said.
Thal was chairman of the neurosciences department at the University of California San Diego. Leslie Franz, a spokeswoman for the university, confirmed late yesterday that Thal died in the crash.
“This is a huge blow to UCSD,” Dr. Henry Powell, a professor of pathology and chairman of the academic senate, said in a statement. “He was a skillful manager of strong-minded people, charming and diplomatic as well as visionary and persuasive.”
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
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Robert Galambos, Neuroscientist Who Showed How Bats Navigate, Dies at 96By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: July 15, 2010 Dr. Robert Galambos, a neuroscientist whose work included helping to prove how bats navigate in total darkness and deciphering the codes...
- Alzheimer's Disease: New Risk Genes Discovered
From Cardiff University News Centre: New Alzheimer’s risk genes discovered in record study 27 October 2013 "In the largest ever study of its kind, an international collaboration of scientists, jointly led by Cardiff, has uncovered 11 new susceptibility...
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