Defilippi Louis J

05/16/2026

Business picked up for the balance of 2024, through 2025 and to the first quarter of 2026. Now in mid Spring slow once more.... just in time for yard work. LOL The life of a consultant is never dull.

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09/05/2024

Business finally slowing down a bit. I can now breath! LOL

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05/09/2024

I am now on two biotechnology consulting projects. Busy busy.

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02/12/2024

Busy busy week... reviewing my deposition for one of the cases I am on.

02/04/2024

As of 2/24 I am working as an expert witness on three different cases... incredibly rewarding from a scientific standpoint.

08/27/2023

Pig liver esterase is still available.

06/02/2022

When I was an undergraduate back in the day at Queens College, I asked my Honors Chemistry advisor, the eminent organic chemist, A.H. Blatt, if I should buy a copy of last year’s CRC Handbook at a substantial discount or if I should wait until this year’s edition came out. He thought for just a moment then asked: “How often do they change the boiling point of benzene?” He did not need to say more. I bought last year’s edition at a considerable savings. Yes there is a lesson to be learned. The latest is not always the most advantageous or best value.

10/09/2020

Another great Italian- American scientist is Nobel Laureate Renato Dulbecco. "Dulbecco [was] credited with playing a pivotal role in the development of modern molecular biology and the discovery of the biochemical basis of our genetic codes. One of his major findings—that tumor viruses cause cancer by inserting their own genes into the chromosomes of infected cells—was among the first clues to the genetic nature of cancer. In 1986, he initiated the idea of studying all human genes, helping to launch the worldwide Human Genome Project."

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today that he has awarded the President's Medal for Excellence to Italian-American virologist Renato Dulbecco, joint-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and one of four Nobel Laureates who worked together at IU in the...

10/06/2020

Continuing with October's Italian-American Heritage Month I present Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini:
"American and Italian-American Win Nobel for Research on Cell Growth
By Cristine Russell, October 14, 1986
An American biochemist and an Italian-American biologist received the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for pioneering research in how cells grow normally and how they may go astray to cause disease.

The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute awarded the prize jointly to Stanley Cohen, a 63-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, 77, who worked out of a makeshift lab in her bedroom before and during World War II because anti-Semitism prevented her from working in a university. She has since spent three decades doing research in the United States and is now at the Institute of Cell Biology in Rome.

The Nobel award announcement said that the discoveries of two potent natural substances -- called growth factors -- involved in regulating nerve and skin cells "opened new fields of widespread importance to basic science" and "as a direct consequence" may increase understanding of numerous disorders, including birth defects, cancers, muscular dystrophy, delayed healing of wounds, and Alzheimer's disease." For more see:

An American biochemist and an Italian-American biologist received the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for pioneering research in how cells grow normally and how they may go astray to cause disease. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute awarded the prize jointly to Stanley Cohen,...

10/05/2020

OCTOBER IS ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE AND CULTURE MONTH. SO I WILL START POSTING WITH FAMOUS SCIENTISTS. THE TOP OF THE LIST IS ENRICO FERMI. "ENRICO FERMI (1901-1954) WAS AN ITALIAN PHYSICIST AND RECIPIENT OF THE 1938 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. IN 1942, FERMI RELOCATED TO THE CHICAGO MET LAB, WHERE HE BUILT AN EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR PILE UNDER STAGG FIELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO." SEE MORE HERE: HTTPS://WWW.ATOMICHERITAGE.ORG/PROFILE/ENRICO-FERMI