Andreas Doncic, an assistant professor at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, died last month (April 21) when he was struck by cars while walking across a highway. He was 40 years old.
Doncic’s lab, which he started in 2015, was studying cell division decision-making in budding yeast and was in the process of publishing its first results. “What he found is a mathematical approach to this prediction [of cell fate] with multiple sets of data,” says Sandra Schmid, chair of the Department of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern. She adds that his accomplishment “is amazing,” and that his vision for this project was what had prompted her to hire him.
Doncic grew up in Sweden and earned his bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from Gothenburg University, then switched gears to life science for his master’s in molecular biotechnology engineering at Uppsala University, according to an obituary in The Dallas Morning News.
He moved to Israel ...
