Obituaries

Daniel N. Hebert (1962–2024)

Daniel Hebert’s colleagues remember the passionate glycobiologistscientist, caring mentor and kind friend.

In memoriam: Daniel N. Hebert

He was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who discovered the glycan code that facilitates protein folding, maturation and quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum.

In memoriam: Donald A. Bryant

He was a professor emeritus at Penn State University who discovered how cyanobacteria adapt to far-red light and was a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for over 35 years.

In memoriam: Margaret Fonda

She taught biochemistry in a male-dominated department at a medical school and was an ASBMB member for more than 50 years.

In memoriam: Arnis Kuksis

He was a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who studied the complex mechanisms dictating lipid metabolism and an ASBMB member for more than 40 years.

In memoriam: Horst Schulz

He was a professor emeritus at City College of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan whose work concentrated on increasing our understanding of mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism and an ASBMB member since 1971.

In memoriam: Bengt Samuelsson

He was a Nobel laureate, a professor at the Karolinska Institute, a lipid biochemist and an ASBMB member for almost 50 years.

In memoriam: Bruce Ames

He invented a cheap and easy way to assess mutagenicity that helped identify many environmental and industrial carcinogens; it became known as the Ames test.

In memoriam: William L. Smith

He served as associate editor of both the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Lipid Research and was an ASBMB member for more than 40 years.