Dr Wiete Westerhof has passed away on July 3, 2024. He was a visionary Dermatologist affiliated with the Department of Dermatology at Amsterdam University, and a passionate pigmentation researcher. The ‘Westerhof syndrome’ presented by Wiete in 1978 describes a hereditary neurocutaneous syndrome different from TSC with hypo-and hypermelanotic lesions. Most of Wiete’s attention, however, was […]
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Beatrice Mintz (1921-2022)
We have just learnt that a giant in mouse developmental biology, Beatrice Mintz, passed away, at the age of 100, on January 3, 2022. Besides her many remarkable scientific contributions she also was the mentor of outstanding researchers, including our colleague from ESPCR and IFPCS Lionel Larue. He informed me about these sad news and […]
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