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Nov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57--Expertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on how the
immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.--Circumstances of Death: He had just bought tickets to take his son to Graceland the following day. He had just left a banquet for fellow researchers in Memphis. Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River. his family said he was in perfect health. There was no autopsy.
Nov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64--Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile
Russian defector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.--Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a laboratory at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare defense establishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax".--Circumstances of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain´s spy agency, concluded he died of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik said he was
in good health.
Dec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57--Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia´s Center for
Innovative Technology in Herndon.--Circumstances of Death: stabbed and slashed with what
police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her fellow pagans have been charged.
Dec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44--Expertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect smallpox.--Circumstances: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.
January 2002: Two dead microbiologists: Ivan Glebov
and Alexi Brushlinski. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski was killed in Moscow. Both were well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
January 28, 2002: David W. Barry, 58--Expertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS.--Circumstances:
Feb. 9, 2002: Victor Korshunov, 56--Expertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world--Circumstances: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.Feb. 14, 2002: Ian Langford, 40--Expertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.--Circumstances: found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the waist down and wedged under a
chair.
Feb. 28, 2002: Tanya Holzmayer, 46--Expertise: a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine.--Circumstances: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then he shot
himself.
Feb. 28, 2002: Guyang Huang, 38--Expertise: Microbiologist--Circumstances: Apparently shot himself after shooting
fellow microbiologist, Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.
March 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, 55--Expertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space.--Circumstances: Died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
March 25, 2002: Steven Mostow, 63--Expertise: Known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating influenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre.--Circumstances: died when the airplane he was piloting
crashed near Denver.
Nov. 12, 2002: Benito Que, 52--Expertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School--Circumstances of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami Medical School. He died without regaining consciousness. Police
said he had suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been in perfect health and claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned a verdict of death by natural causes.
April 2003: Carlo Urbani, 46--Expertise: A dedicated and internationally respected
Italian epidemiologist, who did work of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.--Circumstances: Died 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 patients, he contracted
the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died.
June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47A resident of Carmel Valley--Expertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county prepare to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.--Circumstances: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews of UCSD, the director of the university's Owen Clinic for AIDS patients. Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and had gone to
lie down. When he didn't appear for dinner, Mathews checked on him and found him dead. A cause has not yet been determined.
July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59--Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior
post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down--Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S.
Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax"--worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.--Circumstances: 'Suicide'
Oct 24, 2003: Michael Perich, 46--Expertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile virus. Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control and Rodent Abatement District to determine whether mosquitoes in the area carried West Nile.--Circumstances: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perich of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford pickup truck about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, while heading west on Interstate 12 in
Livingston Parish. Perich's truck veered right off the highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in rainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned. The cause of the crash is under
investigation, Burns said. "Mike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out and save lives today." ~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
November 22, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45--Expertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing
cruise ships until he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003--Circumstances: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the 1600 block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit him at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away. Burghoff died an hour later at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
December 18, 2003: Robert Aranosia, 61--Expertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner--Circumstances: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the
Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes.
January 6, 2004: Dr Richard Stevens, 54--Expertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)--Circumstances: 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 ruled.
January 23 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74--Expertise: An expert on viruses who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992 report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses. Dr. Shope had
accumulated his own collection of virus samples gathered from all over the world.--Circumstances: The cause was complications of a lung transplant he received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of Galveston. Dr. Shope had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown origin that scars the lungs.
January 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62--Expertise: Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line
world class.--Circumstances: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were
working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as
well as bioweaponized ones.
April 12, 2004: Ilsley Ingram, 84--Expertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas
Hospital in London.--Circumstances: unknown
May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56--Expertise: Mallove was well respected for his
knowledge of cold fusion. He had just published an open letter outlining the results of and reasons for his last 15 years in the field of new energy research. Dr. Mallove was convinced it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy device.--Circumstances: Died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery.
May 25, 2004: Antonina Presnyakova--Expertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia--Circumstances: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with Ebola.
June 24, 2004: Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45--Expertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in
1997 and served for five years as the county's lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking the health of the county, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a system
for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major health concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media to inform the public.--Circumstances: Dallas County's chief epidemiologist, was found at his desk, died of a stroke.
June 27, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52--Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and
biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.--Circumstances: He was killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon on Sunday. A father and daughter also died at the scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal Marine Major Mike Wills later died in hospital.
June 29, 2004: John Mullen, 67--Expertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell
Douglas.--Circumstances: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
July 1, 2004: Edward Hoffman, 62--Expertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held leadership positions within the UCLA medical community. Worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.--Circumstances: unknown
July 2, 2004: Larry Bustard, 53--Expertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a
foam spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. His team came up with a new technology used against biological and chemical agents.--Circumstances: unknown
July 3, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, 52--Expertise: The chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory
at Porton Down, Wiltshire--Circumstances: He was killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon.
July 6, 2004: Stephen Tabet, 42--Expertise: An associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.--Circumstances: Died of an unknown illness
July 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares--Expertise: He was a phD chemist--Circumstances: His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.
August 12, 2004: Professor John Clark--Expertise: Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world's leading animal biotechnology research centres. He played a crucial role
in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame.--Circumstances: He was found hanging in his holiday home.
September 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear physicist since 1984.--Circumstances: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
November 2, 2004: John R. La Montagne--Expertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director.--Circumstances: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.
December 29, 2004: Tom Thorne and Beth Williams--Expertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis--Circumstances: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
December 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist--Circumstances: He was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way towork at Diyala University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a
professor at the local university, was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
January 7, 2005: Jeong H. Im, 72--Expertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Primarily a protein chemist.--Circumstances: He was stabbed several times and his body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage.
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