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Obituaries may be submitted to obituaries@sfn.org. Please include the deceased member's name and dates, a photo, a descriptive headline, a link to an external obituary, and the obituary text.
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Klaudiusz R. Weiss (Klaude), Professor Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai passed away December 22, 2022 at his home in New York City after a long illness. -
Michael Steinmetz, Ph.D., director of the NEI Division of Extramural Science Programs (DESP), passed away on July 30 following a boating accident. -
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore FRS, FMedSci, HonFRCP, HonFRSM, HonFRSB, HonFBPhS, MAE, Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford passed away peacefully at Sobell House on Monday June 27th surrounded by his daughters.
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Gordon Murray Shepherd, MD, DPhil, professor emeritus in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, passed away on June 9, 2022, after a short hospitalization at the age of 88. He was a major and passionate contributor to our knowledge of brain synaptic organization, and the mechanisms of olfaction in particular.
