Many friends say she made it possible for him to continue painting until he slipped into Alzheimer's disease.
He said his group and others were hoping that research into other diseases would follow the same path.
In actual fact, no, or hardly any, research is being done into diseases of the developing countries.
The university has received a grant of over a million dollars for research into tropical diseases.
There is also an obvious need for genetic research into rare diseases to be better coordinated at European level.
My father lived with me and my family during the last two years of his life while he sank ever deeper into Alzheimer's disease.
Those kinds of stresses evolve in complicated ways into diseases that are killing people.
Psychiatric professionals are not immune to depression, nor do they necessarily have insight into their own disease.
Idec has specialized in cancer and was moving into autoimmune diseases.
This had far-reaching effects on medicine, research into genetic diseases, blood transfusion, and public health.