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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.



  • June 02, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz, who was awarded the Wolf Prize in 1979 for the new approach to the control of Parkinson's disease using L-DOPA.
  • June 01, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. David James Holbrook, Jr., one of the founders of the Curriculum in Toxicology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
  • May 13, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Benedict R. Lucchesi, a longtime ASPET member and active participant in the Division for Cardiovascular Pharmacology which grants a young scientist travel award in his name.
  • March 05, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Marcus Reidenberg.
  • March 02, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Alan Paul Poland.
  • February 24, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Edward J. "Ed" Barbieri.
  • February 18, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Julian L. Ambrus Sr.
  • February 05, 2020
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Ronald S. Duman.
  • December 30, 2019
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Casey Robinson, ASPET Emeritus member and author of 40 scientific publications cited more than 300 times.
  • December 30, 2019
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of Dr. Robert J. Ertel.

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