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Dominique Vanhecke and colleagues have developed palatable formulations that encourage voluntary consumption of water-insoluble drugs such as tamoxifen without loss of efficacy compared to oral gavage or injections. The sweetened formulations are administered using common micropipettes, allowing for accurate, weight-adjusted dosing that can be performed with minimal training of the experimenter. The award has been made possible through a generous education grant from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dr. Alice Accorsi, nominated by Timothy Corbin, will be awarded the 10th ISTT Young Investigator Award at the next 19^thTransgenic Technology Meeting in Zurich, Switzerland TT2025; April 24-27, 2025. The award has been made possible through a generous education grant from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Jean-Louis Guénet (1938-2024). He was 85 years old and would have been 86 in October. I met Jean-Louis in France, in Spain and in Brazil, where we taught a course on mouse genetics and cryopreservation. He has contributed to the identification and cloning of many genes and mutations in the mouse genome, using genetic strategies, well before we got to know the mouse genome (in 2002). His scientific legacy is illustrated by over 300 publications and his many participations at meetings, symposia, workshops and courses. I asked Fernando Benavides (MDACC, Houston, TX, USA), a close friend of Jean-Louis, who also got his PhD supervised by Jean-Louis to write an obituary for a list I am responsible for in Spain, where Jean-Louis had many friends and colleagues. I sincerely thank Fernando for preparing this text. I thought this would of interest for the ISTT family as well. Hence, I took the liberty to translate the obituary to English and I am now sharing it through the ISTT list. Many thanks to Fernando for writing this text. Jean-Louis will be sorely missed. Not only for his scientific knowledge but also for his friendship. May he rest in peace. Lluis

P.S. If you can read Spanish, I invite you to review an interview of Jean-Louis Guénet made by Juan Manuel Baamonde for bioterios.com in 2013.

https://www.bioterios.com/post.php?s=2013-05-16-dr-jean-louis-guenet

The 16th ISTT Prize will be awarded to Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch at the TT2025 meeting in Zurich, Switzerland!

The 3Rs Award made possible through a generous education grant from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recognizes outstanding achievements by a scientist or a research team who keep the field of transgenic technologies vibrant with new methodologies and improvements in strict accordance with the 3Rs principles of humane experimental technique.

In Memoriam: Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Pioneer in Reproductive Biology and Cloning

In Memoriam: Sir Ian Wilmut passed away on September 10, 2023. He had been diagnosed of Parkinson in April 2018. He died at the age of 79.

Dr. Ashley Rasys, nominated by Dr. Richard Behringer, will be awarded the 9th ISTT Young Investigator Award at the next  18^th Transgenic Technology Meeting, in Houston , TX, USA (TT2023; November 12-15 2023).