Alan Hall (1952-2015), an Englishman in New York.

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Alan closing his departing speech at LMCB in 2006 by featuring his lab. Image by Ione Karney. ![][1] Alan Hall died of a heart attack during his regular Sunday morning jog on May 3rd in New York City, where he had lived with his wife Eileen. Alan's untimely and unexpected death happened just a couple of weeks before his 63rd birthday, which he would undoubtedly have celebrated with his two children and two young grandchildren. Before joining the Sloane Kettering Institute as chair of the cell biology program in 2006, most of Alan's career was spent in the UK. After graduating from Oxford, he stayed in town to start his PhD with Jeremy Knowles, but he received his first exposure to US science quite unintentionally when Jeremy announced he was relocating to Harvard after two months. Over his four years in Harvard, Alan perfected his training in biochemistry. He then did a two‐year postdoc with Charles Weissmann (University of Zurich) where he developed his molecular biology skills and helped clone interferon. It was only after joining the Institute of … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif