Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT), also known as Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) and peroneal muscular atrophy (PMA) — is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system characterised by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body.
Howard Henry Tooth
Howard Henry Tooth, CMG, CB (22 April 1856–1925) was a British neurologist. He was one of the scientists who discovered Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Tooth died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England.
Frederic Lewy
Frederic Henry Lewey (born Friedrich Heinrich Lewy, January 28, 1885 - October 5, 1950) was a Jewish German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies.
Alfons Maria Jakob
Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg/Bavaria–17 October 1931, Hamburg) was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology. He was one of the scientists who discovered Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neuropathologist. He was the first to describe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was born in Harburg upon Elbe and died in Munich.
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), also known as diffuse Lewy body disease, cortical Lewy body disease, and senile dementia of Lewy type, is a type of dementia accompanied by changes in sleep, behavior, cognition, movement, and automatic bodily functions. It is characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies, parts of alpha-synuclein and ubiquitin protein in neurons, detectable in "post mortem" brain histology.
Lewy body dementia affects 1.3 million individuals in the United States alone.
Beji Caid Essebsi
Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi (or el-Sebsi, , ""; 29 November 1926 – 25 July 2019) was a Tunisian lawyer and politician. He was the fifth President of Tunisia from 2014 until his death in 2019. He was elected in the first presidential election that followed the Tunisian Revolution. From 27 February 2011 to 24 December 2011, he was the Prime Minister of Tunisia.
On 27 June 2019, Essebsi was hospitalized at a military hospital in Tunis under critical condition due to a "severe medical crisis". The following day his condition stabilized. He died a month later on 25 July after being hospitalized after having a "medical scare" in Tunis at the age of 92.
Hédi Baccouche
Hédi Baccouche (15 January 1930 – 21 January 2020) was the Prime Minister of Tunisia from 7 November 1987 to 27 September 1989. Baccouche led the Socialist Destourian Party until it changed its name to the Constitutional Democratic Rally in 1988. He was born in Hammam Sousse.
Hamed Karoui
Hamed Karoui (30 December 1927 – 27 March 2020) was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 September 1989 to 17 November 1999. From 1986 to 1987 he was Minister of Youth and Sports and from 1988 to 1989 he was Minister of Justice. He was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party. He was born in Sousse, Tunisia.
Karoui died on 27 March 2020 at his home in Sousse at the age of 92.
Mohammed Mzali
Mohammed Mzali (, 23 December 1925 – 23 June 2010) was a Tunisian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Tunisia from 23 April 1980 through 8 July 1986. Mzali was born in Monastir, Tunisia.
He served as a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1965 until his death in 2010.
Mzali died in Paris, France from a long-illness, aged 85.
Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of "Julia" and "Ordinary People".
Sargent died on May 9, 2019 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 92.
Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent (born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente, July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American movie and television director and producer. He was best known for his movies "White Lightning", "MacArthur", "Nightmares", "", and "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". He won four Emmy Awards.
Sargent died of complications from heart disease at his home in Malibu, California, on December 22, 2014. He was 89.
Burrill Bernard Crohn
Burrill B. Crohn (June 13, 1884 – July 29, 1983) was an American gastroenterologist. He was one of the first to describe Crohn's disease. He was born in New York. Crohn died in Connecticut at the age of 99.
George Huntington
George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician. He discovered Huntington's disease. He was born in New York City. Huntington died in Long Island, New York, aged 65.
Autoimmunity
Autoimunity is immune reaction against self components, which are recognized as antigens. This reaction can produce severe inflammation or can be innocuous, as when directed to intracellular autoantigens, which are not expressed to circulating antibodies or to the lymphocytes.
Autoimunity can develop spontaneously or can be induced experimentally by immunization with autoantigens or antigensd croos-reactive with autoantigens. Autoimunity reactions cause numerous autoimmune diseases and disorders.
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (; born 23 December 1952) is a Bangladeshi author of science fiction and Children's literature He is a professor of computer science and engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He is also head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering at that university. He was fled from war in 1971, but after winning the liberation war, he came back from the cave and pretend to be a freedom fighter.
Zafar Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. His mother is Ayesha Akhter Khatun. In his childhood, he traveled various parts of Bangladesh. This was because of his father's transferring jobs. Iqbal was encouraged to write by his father in early life. Iqbal passed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) exam from Dhaka College in 1970. He earned his BSc in physics from the University of Dhaka in 1976. In the same year Iqbal went to University of Washington to obtain his PhD which he earned in 1982.
He married Yasmeen Haque in 1978. She is currently the Dean of the Life Science Department and Head of the department of Physics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). They have a son, Nabil, and a daughter, Yeshim. Iqbal's elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was a writer and filmmaker. His younger brother, Ahsan Habib, is the editor of the satirical magazine, "Unmad" ("Mad") and a cartoonist.
After obtaining his PhD degree, Iqbal worked as a post-doctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This was from 1983 to 1988. He then joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) as a research scientist. He left the institute in 1994. Upon returning to Bangladesh he joined the faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering department at SUST. Later he became the head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering department (EEE).He also serves as the Director of BTCL and Vice President of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad committee. Iqbal played a leading role in founding Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad. He popularized mathematics among Bangladeshi youths at local and international level. In 2011 he won Rotary SEED Award (Science, Education and Economic Development) for his contribution in the field of education.