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Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry Frank Chytil has died

Posted 2/9/2010

Frank Chytil, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, died Jan. 31. There will be a memorial service at 2 p.m., Feb. 15, in Benton Chapel.

We invite all of his colleagues and friends to attend the service. You may read about Chytil’s research and his life under the Nazi Germany occupation, the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia and his life in the U.S. at
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.nutr.23.011702.073155 .

The family requests, that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, attention: Marlee Crankshaw.

Contact: myVU, myvu@vanderbilt.edu

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