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Carcinogenesis, Vol. 22, No. 12, 1899-1901, December 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

OBITUARY

In memoriam: Ronald G.Thurman (1941–2001)

Ivan Rusyn

Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4309, USA

Dr Ronald (Ron) Glenn Thurman, Professor of Pharmacology and Nutrition, and Director, Laboratory of Hepatobiology and Toxicology at the Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill died on July 14, 2001 at the age of 59. For over 30 years Ron Thurman was an outstanding investigator in the fields of hepatic metabolism, alcoholic liver injury, non-genotoxic liver carcinogenesis and toxicology. With his untimely death, his great family of colleagues and friends lost a most productive and creative researcher, teacher and mentor. His major research focus was on the liver and his many discoveries provided key insights into the critical role that cell–cell interactions play in pathophysiology of liver disease. The research findings on molecular and cellular mechanisms of liver carcinogenesis, inflammation, fibrosis and cirrhosis provide the foundations to better understanding of a variety of dreadful human diseases and will continue to have profound influences in the areas . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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