Dear IBBS Colleagues, We regretfully wish to announce the passing on June 18, 2024 of Professor William (Bill) Pardridge, longtime faculty member at the UCLA School of Medicine and founder of the CNS drug delivery company Armagen.
It is with great sadness that we are letting you know about the passing of our dear colleague and friend Dr. Maria Spatz, who died on January 27th, 2024 at the age of 99 after a long illness. With Maria’s passing, we have lost a pioneering female scientist in brain barriers research who shaped the present field with her foundational work over many decades during the latter half of the 20th century up until the early 2000s.