Dr. Edward Bresnick passed away on March 26, 2003. Dr. Bresnick (will be remembered as) was first and foremost a scientist and educator who inspired those he mentored and who engendered strong mutual loyalties with those trained in his lab. During his career he mentored 26 graduate students to degrees at six universities, while also mentoring 38 post doctoral fellows. Many of his postdoctoral fellows remained with him as faculty, and it is notable that he essentially retired so he could work in the lab of a former post doc-Alan Eastman-at Dartmouth.

Dr. Bresnick received his B.S. from St. Peters College and then moved to Fordham University where he received an M.S. in Chemistry in 1954 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1958. He began his early career as a Senior Biochemist with the Wellcome Research Laboratories but then moved into an academic track at Baylor College of Medicine, being promoted from Assistant Professor to Professor. Dr. Bresnick received a Research Starter Grant for the Foundation in 1971. Dr. Bresnick then moved on to several leadership roles, first as Professor and Chair of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Medical College of Georgia, then Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Professor of Oncology and Director of the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School and also Director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, and finally , Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center from 1994 to 1999. He was a prominent member of many national committees and organizations, including President of the American Association for Cancer Research and a member of the ISSX Publications Committee. He served on the Editorial Boards or as an Associate Editor of numerous prominent journals, and also as Editor of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.