In memory: Mark A Smith, 1965-2010

Sound Recording and 3D motion pictures of 23 December 2010 5PM Jerusalem time by Alexei Koudinov. Melody by Tomaso Albinone, Adagio in G Minor. To view 3D i recommend using no 3D devices mode and/or smaller (then standard youtube player) video player size.

Quoting Alzforum.org news of 21 December 2010:

"As shocked researchers notify each other privately, the Alzforum editors are saddened to inform the community at large that Mark Smith died last Sunday.

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Smith, a prolific and outspoken researcher on Alzheimer's disease and the biology of aging, was walking home at about 2 a.m. from an early Christmas party at a local tavern, when a man, who had apparently been at the tavern as well that night, struck him from behind and left the scene. Another motorist noticed the body of a man lying in the road, notified the police, and Smith was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly thereafter. Incredibly, the driver was later found dead in his home or his car, according to various early news reports (see, e.g., The News-Herald). Police are investigating.

Mark Smith was well known to Alzforum readers. Starting in 2002, he became a frequent commentator and co-led ARF Live discussions as early as 1999.

Born in 1965, Smith grew up in England, trained there and in Vienna, Austria, and then began his U.S. career with a postdoctoral position in 1992 in the lab of George Perry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Smith rose through the ranks at Case Western, where he was professor of pathology. In 2006, Perry moved on to become dean at the University of Texas at San Antonio, but the two continued to work together closely. "We exchanged 20 e-mails per day and spoke daily on the phone, the last time Friday," said Perry.

Smith and Perry coauthored some 500 papers and shared the work of editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. They co-edited, with Jesus Avila and June Kinoshita, the centennial book Alzheimer's Disease, A Century of Scientific and Clinical Research, IOS Press, 1996. "Mark and I were indistinguishable in many ways. We worked on everything together," said Perry. Indeed, a follow-up to this book, chronicling the major discoveries in AD research in the years since 1996, is already in planning; Perry will dedicate it to Smith.

Smith's main contributions to the understanding of Alzheimer's disease lie in the areas of oxidative stress and the cell cycle...

Also see:
http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2647
http://www.j-alz.com/marksmith.html

...to be continued

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