April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016
Dick was a lovely fellow whom I was delighted to know for many years in the context of myelin biochemistry, dysmyelinating mouse mutants & multiple sclerosis. One of my early graduate students, Mary Druse (later Druse-Manteufell), went to Roscoe Brady's NIH lab, met Dick & worked on an early MAG aspect opening me to his detailed persistent pursuit of MAG with all of its fundamental, membrane structural & immunological facets playing roles in autoimmunity, glyco-immunogenicity, multiple sclerosis pathogenicity, etc. Oh so many times I enjoyed talking with him at meetings and dealing with study section & site visit reviewing that revealed a tenacious, informed approach with a calm and fair disposition. I will always miss this and know that his family and friends take solace at his loss in his seminal contribution pioneering in neurochemistry always supporting coworkers & colleagues.