Tucker Collins
It is with very mixed emotions that we write this Memorial Minute in honor of Dr. Tucker Collins — joyful because we are celebrating the distinguished accomplishments of a good colleague, collaborator, and friend; and, at the same time, deeply saddened by his untimely death at the age of but 54 years due to an aggressive brain tumor. Tucker received his BA from Amherst College in 1975, and completed his M.D., Ph.D. at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his residency training in Anatomical Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1986 under his mentor Dr. Ramzi S. Cotran. Tucker then became one of the first research fellows in the newly established Vascular Research Division, headed by Dr. Michael Gimbrone. He worked in the laboratory of Dr. Jordan Pober, where he performed some of the earliest studies of the induction of major histocompatibility antigens in the...