John Denis McGarry, PhD

Denis McGarry died peacefully at his home in the presence of his family on the evening of 27 January 2002. The cause of death was a glioblastoma multiforme, diagnosed after the sudden appearance of expressive aphasia in late April 2001.

Denis was born in Widnes, England, in 1940. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Manchester, receiving his PhD in 1966. He did two years of postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Liverpool and the University College of Wales before joining the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas as a postdoctoral fellow in 1968. He was appointed assistant professor of internal medicine in 1969 and reached full professorship in internal medicine and biochemistry in 1977. He was named to the Clifton and Betsy Robinson Chair in Biomedical Research in 1996.

Denis was a gifted teacher who was regularly judged outstanding by medical …