Professor William Trager, a protozoologist and an authority on tropical medicine and insect physiology, is a leader in the fight against malaria, the most prevalent disease in the world today. In 1976, he and a colleague described a practical method for the continuous cultivation of Plasmodium falciparum, the most highly pathogenic human malaria parasite. Adopted […]

Dr. John B. Stanbury is a Professor at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He has a long and distinguished career, pursuing pioneering research on the diseases of thyroid glands since 1949. Initially, Dr. Stanbury worked on diseases related to genetically enzymatic deficiencies of the thyroid glands. They were enzymes related to the synthesis and regulations […]

PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD DOLL, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. BORN 28 October, 1912 QUALIFICATIONS  MB, BS., University of London at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, 1937  MD, London, 1945  DSc, London, 1958  DM, Oxford, 1969  FRCP London, 1957  FFPHM, 1974 HONORARY DEGREES AND MEMBERSHIPS OF LEARNED INSTITUTIONS  DSc, Newcastle 1969; […]

Professor Norman Sartorius is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland and former Director of the Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organization. Professor Sartorius is an eminent figure in the field of international mental health. He has been instrumental in bringing science to mental health by establishing the first internationally-agreed upon classification […]