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Member Obituaries

ASPET wishes to acknowledge deceased Society members with expanded obituaries on our website. Obituaries for publication on the Society's webpage should be submitted via e-mail to the ASPET membership department at membership@aspet.org. Please include the individual's full name, date of birth and death, education and professional affiliations, and any other details in remembrance of the individual you wish to acknowledge, along with a photo, if available.



  • October 17, 2017
    Obituary: Robert Jacobs
    Robert Jacobs, Professor of Pharmacology Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, passed away on August 26, 2015.
  • October 05, 2017
    Obituary: Alexander George Karczmar
    Alexander Karczmar, known as Alex or Niki, passed away on August 17, 2017. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1917.
  • September 30, 2016
    Obituary: Ronald J. Tallarida
    Dr. Ronald J. Tallarida, an internationally recognized pharmacologist and expert in the study of drug combinations, died at his home in West Deptford, New Jersey, on September 23, 2016.
  • May 31, 2016
    Obituary: Nancy Rutledge Zahniser
    Dr. Nancy Rutledge Zahniser, PhD, passed away peacefully at her home in Denver, Colorado on May 5, 2016 after being diagnosed with neuroglioblastoma in December 2014.
  • March 21, 2016
    Obituary: Dale Birkle Dreer
    Dale Louise Birkle Dreer, Chief of the Office of Scientific Review at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), National Institutes of Health, passed away on Saturday, March 12, 2016 after a brief illness.
  • March 14, 2016
    Obituary: Dr. Alfred G. Gilman
    Dr. Alfred G. Gilman, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and ASPET member since 1973, died on December 23, 2015.
  • March 14, 2016
    Obituary: Marion Sewer
    Dr. Marion Sewer, a national and international leader in the field of steroid hormone biosynthesis, passed away on January 28th, 2016 at the age of 43.
  • February 02, 2016
    Obituary: Leonard Cook
    Leonard Cook, one of the world's leading psychopharmacologists, passed away on January 30th, 2016 at the age of 91.
  • January 12, 2015
    Obtiuary: Dave Leander
    Dave Leander, former Lilly Research Fellow, died on November 14, 2014 at the age of about 70.
  • December 09, 2014
    Obituary: Morton Edward Goldberg
    Dr. Morton Edward Goldberg, 82, died on December 8, 2014 in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

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