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Salk scientist wins $250,000 Asan Award in basic medicine Ronald Evans, director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies’ Gene Expression Laboratory, won the 2021 Asan Award in basic medicine. (Courtesy) Print For La Jolla resident Ronald Evans, director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies’ Gene Expression Laboratory, cellular research is a bit like a treasure hunt. Every discovery, he says, is like picking the lock to a door that opens to a room full of jewels. And for Evans and his lab staff, most rooms have other doors that could lead to other rooms to explore. Early in his scientific career, one of those “rooms” contained a discovery that would launch the field of molecular endocrinology (the molecular processes of hormones). ....
Print For La Jolla resident Jack Blendinger, the recent publication of the book he co-authored with friend Jim Nicholson was literally a lifetime in the making. “The Letterman: Tommy Stevens’ Memoir” is described as a portrait of a boy’s football-obsessed childhood through the wartime years of the 1940s and beyond, his burning athletic ambitions and the turn of events that forced him to reimagine his goals. It is a semi-autobiographical tale. Stevens, in this case, is Nicholson, who died before the book was published. “It’s about 90 percent reality; we only changed the names and places and added a bit to the characters,” Blendinger said. “But it’s mostly true and based on Jim’s life. Jim and I went to school together in Hollywood as children and both taught writing classes as adults, he in California and me in Mississippi. We decided to write a manuscript to bounce it off our students. They liked it, so we pursued getting it published.” ....