Tribute to Timothy W. Nilsen (1948–2024)
- Douglas L. Black1⇑,
- James L. Manley2⇑,
- Gregory J. Hannon3⇑,
- Yang Yu4⇑ and
- John R. Inglis5
- 1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
- 2Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York
- 3CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 4Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, China
- 5Executive Director and Publisher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
- dougb{at}microbio.ucla.edu; jlm2{at}columbia.edu
- greg.hannon{at}cruk.cam.ac.uk; yuyang{at}gwcmc.org
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TIM NILSEN: AN EXCEPTIONAL SCIENTIST AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF RNA
Douglas L. Black1 and James L. Manley2
1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
2Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York
dougb@microbio.ucla.edu; jlm2@columbia.edu
We were saddened to learn that Professor Timothy W. Nilsen passed away in December after an extended illness. Tim was the founding Editor-in-Chief of RNA and made major contributions to RNA science and to our community.
Tim was born in 1948 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He later moved east and attended Fordham University in New York as an undergraduate. After college by Tim's own words: “In the early seventies I drove used cars around the country for wholesale car dealers in the Bronx and supplemented that meager income by gambling on board games and cards. When it dawned on me that this was not a viable long-term career, I went to graduate school.” Those of us who …
