1949 – 2020
Sad to say but Professor Claudio Viscoli passed away peacefully after a long illness on Sunday 3rd May 2020 in his home town of Genoa, Italy.
He was a giant in the field of infectious diseases in general and in Medical Mycology in particular having played a key role in the Infectious Diseases Group of the EORTC IDG, the Immunocompromised Host Society and the European Society of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases for 3 decades.
He will be sorely missed for his intellect and honesty by friends and colleagues. ISHAM sends its condolences to his family and friends on behalf of the Society. May he rest in peace.
Research Laboratory and participated with Thomas Sternberg and Victor Newcomer in the first use of Amphotericin B in animals and in the treatment of humans with coccidioidomycosis. This was a truly exciting three years. In 1958 she was asked to teach and help set up a mycology laboratory at the University of Indonesia Medical School in Djakarta. Following this, she was employed at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School for 31 years as a Professor of Microbiology. Following retirement, she continued to lecture on Medical Mycology and Tuberculosis for 10 years and to teach in the student laboratories.
Carlyn’s major interest was in teaching Medical Mycology. She put on innumerable weekends and night courses for laboratory technicians and physicians and supervised the dermatology resident’s training in Mycology for many years. Carlyn has funded an on-going medical mycology lecture for the Northern California ASM annual meeting for many years and recently established a fund for college microbiology students to attend this annual meeting. An additional new interest was in funding a travel fellowship for a Latin American medical mycologist to attend the annual ASM and MMSA meeting. Years ago she started funding the Carlyn Halde Membership fund for ISHAM.
