MitoMonday
December 7th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of a living legend, whose discoveries ushered in a new era in preventing and treating heart disease, Dr. Akira Endo.
November 15th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of Dr. Louis Sokoloff, a great neuroscientist who revolutionized in vivo studies of the brain and helped lay the foundations for FDG-PET.
October 18th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of an extraordinary scientist who co-discovered a treatment for tuberculosis, and helped establish federal asbestos regulations, Dr. Irving Selikoff.
October 5th 2021: Learn about one of the founding fathers of cardiac metabolism, Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer
August 23rd 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of Dr. Rustom Vakil, the father of Indian cardiology and one of the most influential cardiologists of all-time.
August 2nd 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of an extraordinary human being, who remains largely unknown despite being the founder of pediatric cardiology, Dr. Helen Taussig.
June 21st 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of a pioneer credited with having formulated the modern theory of the science of biophysics, Dr. Detlev Bronk.
June 14th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of an exceptional scientist who was the father of neuroscience, Dr. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
May 17th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of a trailblazer in research on anaerobic electron transport, vitamin B12 metabolism, and selenium biochemistry. Dr. Thressa “Terry” Campbell Stadtman.
April 26th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of an often forgotten, highly influential and generous pioneer who helped established a preventive model in cancer treatment. Dr. Elise L'Esperance.
April 19th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of one of the most extraordinary and influential scientists who won not one, but two Nobel prizes, Dr. Frederick Sanger.
March 31st 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of an extraordinary scientist that began his career in physics but eventually helped set the foundations of molecular biology, Dr. Max Delbrück.
March 22nd 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of a living legend and one of the pioneers and founding fathers of the field of epigenetics, Dr. Peter A. Jones.
March 8th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of Nobel prize laureate, co-developer of radio-immunoassay (RIA) and Legendary Scientist, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow.
February 15th 2021: We briefly highlight the life and works of pioneering geneticist, living legend and authority on inborn errors of metabolism, Elizabeth F. Neufeld.
February 3rd 2020: We briefly talk about an incredible scientist who broke stereotypes, won a Nobel prize, and continues to inspire us all, Dr. Carol Widney Greider.
January 13th 2020: We briefly highlight the life and works of the incredibly influential, yet somehow underrated scientist, Dr. David Ezra Green.
December 2nd 2019: We briefly highlight the live and works of an exceptional scientist, Dr. David Keilin, who had huge contributions in the fields of parasitology, entomology, cell physiology and biochemistry.
October 14th 2019: we briefly highlight the incredible life and works of Nobel prize laureate Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini.
August 26th 2019: We briefly remember and highlight the life and works of one of the most influential scientists of all time Dr. Hans Adolf Krebs.
May 4th 2019: We are taking a break from our regular MitoMonday schedule to briefly talk about midichlorians in celebration of Star Wars Day.
April 15th 2019: We briefly highlight a story of a little-known scientist, Alice Ball, who left a huge impact by developing an effective treatment to leprosy despite passing away at the tragically young age of 24.
January 28th 2019: We highlight the life and works of a true scientific giant, the one the only Dr. Gerty Cori!
November 12th 2018: We highlight the work of a living legend in Mitochondrial research, whose work revealed a key role for the mitochondria in apoptosis, Dr. Xiaodong Wang.
September 17th 2018: We briefly talk about seminal work that has drastically changed and improved our understanding of human disease and also join in helping raise awareness to an important class of disorders.