Brett
DuBois, Audit and Compliance
Brett
J. DuBois, an internal auditor in the Office of
Audit and Compliance, died suddenly at his home on
January 5, at the age of 30.
Mr.
DuBois was a 1991 graduate of Monsignor Bonner High School,
and received his B.S. in accounting from the University
of Scranton in 1995. Before he came to Penn, Mr. DuBois
worked for The Vanguard Group and Consolidated Rail Corporation as
an auditor.
Mr.
DuBois began working at Penn in 2002 as an internal auditor
and was promoted to an internal audit specialist in 2003,
a title he held at the time of his death. He served
as an internal auditor for both Penn and Penn Medicine
audit teams. "He was a key member of the Penn Audit and
Compliance team and highly regarded by members of the
Penn Community. Brett's death was a tragic event and
he will be sorely missed in the Penn Community and by
his colleagues in the Office of Audit and Compliance," said
Rick Whitfield, Vice President, Audit and Compliance.
Mr.
DuBois was pursuing a master's degree at GSE at the time
of his death.
He
is survived by his parents, William J. and Arlene Ridgway
DuBois; three sisters, Renee Rosica, Geralyn Lazer and
Holly Jenzano; and two brothers, William and Kenneth.
Memorial
contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society,
1615 West Chester Pike, Suite 200, West Chester, PA 19382.
Dr.
Martin Goldberg, Psychiatry
Dr.
Martin Goldberg, clinical professor of psychiatry
and emeritus chairman of what is now the Council for
Relationships (originally known as The Marriage
Council of Philadelphia), died on January 27, at the
age of 79 from complications from Parkinson's disease.
Dr.
Goldberg earned a bachelor's degree from the College
of Pharmacy and Science, now the University of the Sciences.
He served in the Army during World War II and earned
his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University after
his discharge from the Army. He interned at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York and completed a residency
in psychiatry at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Coatesville.
In
1968 he became assistant clinical professor in psychiatry
and was promoted to associate clinical professor of psychiatry
in 1972. In 1984 he was promoted to clinical professor
of psychiatry and remained in that position until 2000.
From
1983 to 1997 he was the director of The Marriage Council
of Philadelphia. Under his leadership the Council for
Relationships grew into what is today ten locations
throughout the greater Philadelphia area. Dr. Goldberg
was appointed chairman emeritus in 1997. He was
also a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
and the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy.
Dr.
Goldberg is survived by his wife, Christine Voegtle Goldberg;
daughters, Helen and Anne Duckett; a son, Laurence; two
sisters; and five grandchildren.
Dr.
Daniela Santoli, Wistar Institute
Dr.
Daniela Santoli, a professor in the Immunology
Program at The Wistar Institute and member of Penn's
Cancer Center and Graduate Immunology Group, died on
January 23, of ovarian cancer at the age of 56.
After
earning her Ph.D. at the University of Rome, Dr. Santoli
was recruited as a postdoctoral fellow to The Wistar
Institute in 1972 by Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Wistar's former
director. Her initial research at Wistar was on
the virological aspects of multiple sclerosis and later
the immunology of this disease. Her research evolved
over time to target cancer and the defenses mounted against
it by the immune system. Her passion and the focus of
her research over the past 15 years involved using transplanted
TALL-104 immune cells to treat a variety of cancers.
This work was carried out with colleagues Drs. Sophie
Visonneau and Alessandra Cesano, both of whom trained
in her laboratory. The team discovered that TALL-104
cells had a remarkable ability to recognize and selectively
kill cancer cells in animals, and much of her recent
work focused on developing ways to apply this system
to human cancers. The therapy has been shown to have
potential applications against many kinds of human cancers,
with its greatest promise appearing to rest in killing
off cancer cells that remain after surgery or chemotherapy.
Human clinical trials of TALL-104 cells are currently
under way in Europe.
Dr.
Louise C. Showe, an associate professor in Wistar's Molecular
and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, and a long-time colleague
said, "Dr. Santoli was a valued colleague at Wistar for
more than 30 years. Her whole scientific career took
place here, from post-doctoral fellow to Wistar professor."
She
was also deeply involved with investigators at Penn on
developing the clinical applications of TALL-104 cells.
She
is survived by her husband, Dr. Giovanni Rovera, a pathologist
and former professor and director of The Wistar Institute,
whom she met at Wistar and married in 1979. She is also
survived by their three daughters Stefania, Gabriella,
and Julia; her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Giulio Santoli of
Rome, Italy; and her siblings Mariella, Giovanna, and
Pasquale, who also reside in Italy.
Memorial
donations for cancer research may be made in her name
to the Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce St., Philadelphia,
PA 19104.
