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BRNI GRIEVES LOSS OF FOUNDING MEMBER
August 01, 2003
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A founding member of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute's Scientific Advisory Board, as well as a preeminent neuroscientist, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D. died July 31, 2003 at Yale-New Haven Hospital from complications after an automobile accident. Dr. Goldman-Rakic was one of this nation's foremost neuroscientists and is credited with having first detailed the structure and function of the brain's frontal lobe.
"Our Scientific Advisory Board has lost one of its most valued members," said Dr. Robert M. D'Alessandri, President of the Institute's Board of Directors. "We were honored that she agreed to serve as a founding member and help the Institute in its early years. We express our deepest sympathies to her husband and family."
More information about the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute is available at www.brni.org.