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Vadake Srinivasan
Vadake Srinivasan died March 13, 2004. The Microbiologist crashed car into guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. The death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from India, and was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two...
Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley
Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62, died January 24, 2004. Kiley died of massive heart attack. He was an expert in Ebola, Mad Cow Expert and top of the line world class. It is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it "gave out". Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were...
Robert Shope
Robert Shope, age 74, died January 23, 2004. He was a virus expert who warned of epidemics and died of lung transplant complications. Later it was purported he had died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a virus....
Dr. Richard Stevens
Dr. Richard Stevens, age 54, died on January 6, 2004. He had disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has...
Dr. Roger of Roswell
'Dr. Roger' died in the Summer of 2003. 'Roger' was a pseudonym for this genetics scientist. He was 17 and lived in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the unexplained object crashed. He told a woman he worked with in 1977 named 'Kate' while employed by the Navy, who he...
Dr. David Kelly
David Kelly, age 59, died on July 18, 2003. British biological weapons expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home. Kelly was the Ministry of Defense's chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control...
Dr. Leland Rickman
Dr. Leland Rickman, age 47., died on June 24, 2003. Rickman died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all sides by South Africa. He was a UC San Diego expert on infectious diseases and, since September 11, 2001 a consultant on...
Carl Urbani
Carlo Urbani, age 46, died in April 2003 in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS...
Roman Kuzmin
Roman Kuzmin died in December of 2002. The 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. He was studying to be an orthopedic surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman...
Dr. David R. Knibbs
Dr. David R. Knibbs, age 49, died: August 5, 2002. He was a well-respected pathobiologist specializing in electron microscopy.
Steven Mostow
Steven Mostow, age 63, died on March 25, 2002. He was one of the country's leading infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport. He was known...
Dr. David Wynn-Williams
Dr. David Wynn-Williams, age 55, died on March 24, 2002. He was hit by a car while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist with the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center. He was studying the capability of...
Tanya Holzmayer
Tanya Holzmayer, age 46, died on February 28, 2002. Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco. While taking delivery of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer was shot and killed by a colleague, Guyang "Mathew" Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the US...
Dr. Ian Langford
Dr. Ian Langford, age 40, died on February 12, 2002. He was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home A Russian who was a Senior Research Associate in CSERGE, UK. He was a leading university research scientist working on Global Environment,...
Dr. Vladamir “Victor” Korshunov
Dr. Vladamir "Victor" Korshunov, age 56, died on February 9, 2002. He was found dead on a Moscow street with his head bashed in. Korshunov was head of the microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found dead in the entrance to his home...
David W. Barry
David W. Barry, age 58, died on January 28, 2002. He was a Scientist who co-discovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS. Circumstances of death are unknown.
Dr. Alex Brushlinski
Dr. Alexi Brushlinski died in January of 2002. He was a Russian Microbiologist and was murdered in Moscow after a bandit attack. He was well-known around the world and was a member of the Russian Academy of Science.
Dr. Ivan Glebov
Dr. Ivan Glebov died in January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack. He was well-known around the world and was a member of the Russian Academy of Science.
Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik
Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik, age 64, died on December 23, 2001. He was found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village near his home. Two different dates have been reported: November 21 and December 23. Death ruled stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the #1...
Dr. Don Wiley
Dr. Don Wiley, age 57, vanished December 16, 2001. He was a Molecular Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was...
Dr. Set Van Nguyen
Dr. Set Van Nguyen, age 44, died on December 14, 2001. He was found dead in the airlock entrance to the walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory he worked at in Victoria State, Australia. The room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling...
Dr. David Schwartz
Dr. David Schwartz , age 57, died on December 10, 2001. He was murdered by stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural home Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been...
Dr. Benito Que
Dr. Benito Que, age 52, was found on November 12, 2001 and later died on December 6, 2001. He was found Comatose from what was called a mugging and died later in the hospital. He was found in the street near the laboratory where he worked at the University of Miami...
Avishal Berkman, Amiramp Eldor & Yascov Matzner
Avishal Berkman All Died: November 24, 2001. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At about the time of the Black Sea crash, Avishal Berkman Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by...
Jeffrey Paris Wall
Jeffrey Paris Wall, age 41, died on November 6, 2001. His body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he...
The 5 Unnamed Microbiologists
Five Unnamed Microbiologists died on October 4, 2001. Four of Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia; business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in...
Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz died on May 7, 2001, and the cause is not disclosed. He was an expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His main scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and biological properties of...
Linda Reese
Linda Reese, age 52, died on December 25, 2000 -- three days after she studied a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J. resident who was a sophomore at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after she returned home for the holidays....
Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas, age 35, died on July 16, 2000 a few days after examining a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived. He was a microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.Mike Thomas, age 35, died on July 16,...
Walter W. Shervington, M.D.
Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62, died on April 15, 2000 of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital. He was an extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher about mental health and AIDS in the African American community. Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62, died on April 15,...