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Chris Raetz (Fig. 1) passed away on August 16, 2011 after a three-year battle with anaplastic thyroid cancer. His passing represents an extraordinary loss to the lipid community. Chris was born in East Berlin in 1946 and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1951. He entered Yale University in 1963 and followed in both his parents’ footsteps by majoring in chemistry. He entered Harvard Medical School in 1967 in pursuit of an MD degree, but his past interests in chemistry led him to the research bench in the laboratory of Eugene Kennedy.
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