Howard Fields (1939-2026)

This is a lovely picture of Howard from his UCSF profile page. Howard Fields died at the beginning of this month. I spent more than five years in his lab (1987-92). He excelled at science and friendship. I already miss him. Howard was clearly the leading thinker in the study of pain modulation. It was a heady time for the […]

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Losing Frans

I was being interviewed this morning when the interviewer asked how the work we were talking about related to “Frans de Waal who just passed away.” I had not heard. I immediately choked up and remain teary, twenty minutes since receiving the news. Frans’s death is an enormous loss to me and for the world. Emory University, Frans’s academic home […]

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