Nov 15, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Chitra Chauhan, 33. Died Nov. 15 2010, was found dead in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple Terrace hotel, police said. Chauhan left a suicide note saying she used cyanide. Hazmat team officials said the cyanide was found only in granular form, meaning it was...
Nov 15, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Mark A. Smith, 45, died Nov. 15. A renowned Alzheimer’s disease researcher has died after being hit by a car in Ohio. Smith was a pathology professor at Case Western Reserve University and director of basic science research at the university’s memory and...
Jul 12, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Franco Cerrina, 62. Died July 12 was found dead in a lab at BU’s Photonics Center on Monday morning. The cause of death is not yet known, but have ruled out homicide. Cerrina joined the faculty of BU in 2008 after spending 24 years on the faculty at the...
Apr 26, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Vajinder Toor, 34, Died April 26, 2010. He was shot and killed outside his home in Branford, Conn. Toor was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Medicine who was working with the infectious disease section of Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Apr 6, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Joseph Morrissey, 46, died April 6, 2010 as a victim of a home invasion. The autopsy revealed that the professor died from a stab wound. Although the cause of death was first identified as a gun shot wound, the autopsy revealed that the professor died from a stab...
Feb 13, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Amy Bishop, 45, Neurobiologist – [Not Deceased] murdered three fellow scientists February 13, 2010 after being denied tenure. Dead biology professors are: G. K. Podila, the departments chairman, a native of India; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr....
Feb 13, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Adriel D. Johnson Sr. , 52. Died February 13 at the hand of Neurobiologist Amy Bishop. His research involved aspects of gastrointestinal physiology specifically pancreatic function in vertebrates.
Feb 13, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Gopi K. Podila, 54. Died February 13 at the hand of Neurobiologist Amy Bishop, Indian American biologist, noted academician, and faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He listed his research interests as engineering tree biomass for bioenergy,...
Feb 13, 2010 | Scientists Re-Booted
Maria Ragland Davis, 52. Died February 13, 2010 at the hand of Neurobiologist Amy Bishop. Her background was in chemical engineering and biochemistry, and she specialized in plant pathology and biotechnology applications. She had a doctorate in biochemistry and had...
Nov 11, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Keith Fagnou, 38, died November 11, 2009 of H1N1. His research focused on improving the preparation of complex molecules for petrochemical, pharmaceutical or industrial uses. Keith’s advanced and out-of-the-box thinking overturned prior ideas of what is possible...
Oct 12, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Stephen Lagakos, 63, died October 12, 2009 in an auto collision. Stephen’s wife Regina, 61, and his mother, Helen, 94, were also killed in the crash, as was the driver of the other car, Stephen Krause, 52, of Keene, N.H. Lagakos centered his efforts on several...
Sep 13, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Malcolm Casadaban, 60, died Sept. 13, 2009 of plague. Casadaban, a renowned molecular geneticist with a passion for new research, had been working to develop an even stronger vaccine for the plague. The medical center says the plague bacteria he worked with was a...
Aug 6, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Wallace L. Pannier, 81, died Aug. 6, 2009 of respiratory failure and other natural causes. Pannier, a germ warfare scientist whose top-secret projects included a mock attack on the New York subway with powdered bacteria in 1966. Mr. Pannier worked at Fort Detrick, a...
Jul 3, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, died July 3, 2009 after being bound, gagged, stabbed and set alight. Laurent, a student in the proteins that cause infectious disease, had been stabbed 196 times with half of them being administered to his back after he was...
Jun 9, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
August “Gus” Watanabe, 67, died June 9, 2009. He was found dead outside a cabin in Brown County. Friends discovered the body, a .38-caliber handgun and a three-page note at the scene. They said he had been depressed following the death last month of his...
Jun 3, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Caroline Coffey, 28, died June 3, 2009 from massive cuts to her throat. Hikers found the body of the Cornell Univ. post-doctoral bio-medicine researcher along a wooded trail in the park, just outside Ithaca, N.Y., where the Ivy League school is located. Her husband...
Feb 14, 2009 | Scientists Re-Booted
Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi, 53, died February 14, 2009 of “suspicious” causes. Dr. Noah (formerly Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi) is described in his American biography as a pioneer of Mind-Body-Quantum medicine who lectured in five countries and ran a...
Jul 29, 2008 | Scientists Re-Booted
Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, died July 29, 2009 of an overdose. He committed suicide prior to formal charges being filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an alleged criminal connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Ivins was likely solely responsible for the...
Oct 6, 2007 | Scientists Re-Booted
Dr. Mario Alberto Vargas Olvera, age 52, died October 6, 2007 as a result of several blunt-force injuries to his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found in his home. He was a nationally and internationally recognized biologist.
Mar 10, 2007 | Scientists Re-Booted
Yongsheng Li, age 29, died sometime after 4 p.m. on March 10, 2007 when he was last seen as a result of unknown causes. He was found in a pond between the Women’s Sports Complex and State Botanical Gardens on South Milledge Avenue Sunday and had been missing 16...
Nov 12, 2006 | Scientists Re-Booted
Mark Purdey, his Lawyer, and Veterinarian working with Purdey die: CJD doctor Mark Purdey was familiar with the expression “abnormal brain protein.” Purdey’s house was burned down, his lawyer on mad cow issues was driven off the road and died and the...
May 31, 2006 | Scientists Re-Booted
Yoram Kaufman, age 57 (one day before his 58th birthday), died May 31, 2006 when he was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle near the Goddard center’s campus in Greenbelt. Dr. Kaufman began working at the space flight center in 1979 and spent his...
May 22, 2006 | Scientists Re-Booted
Lee Jong-woo, age 61, died on May 22, 2006 after suffering a blood clot on the brain. Lee was spearheading the organization’s fight against global threats from bird flu, AIDS and other infectious diseases. WHO director-general since 2003, Lee was his...
Jun 8, 2005 | Scientists Re-Booted
Leonid Strachunsky died on June 8, 2005 after being hit on the head with a champagne bottle. Strachunsky specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons. Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where he had come from Smolensk en route...
May 19, 2005 | Scientists Re-Booted
Robert J. Lull, age 66, died on May 19, 2005 of multiple stab wounds. Despite his missing car and apparent credit card theft, homicide Inspector Holly Pera said investigators aren’t convinced that robbery was the sole motive for Lull’s killing. She said a...
