Dr. Zeev Pancer passed away.

A very sad new came to me. Dr. Zeev Pancer, University of Maryland, has passed away in his home on 20th April at the age of 56. As a congress chair of ISDCI 2012, I invited him to Fukuoka to have a plenary lecture entitled "Lamprey variable lymphocyte receptors: from discovery to biomedical applications", and had a exciting time with many chatting and big rough. I miss him very much. He was an awesome scientist.