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Nature Cell Biology 8, 302 (1 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncb0406-302

Shoichiro Tsukita 1953|[ndash]|2005

Werner W. Franke

We all know examples of prominent artists, notably poets and musicians that have had a short, high-intensity, creative life, suddenly interrupted by an all too early death. An artist of molecular cell biology, Shoichiro Tsukita left us on December 11 2005, at only 52 years of age, after more than a year's fight against pancreatic carcinoma.