Re: Sad news about Dr. Ludden
Dear nmusers,
It is so sad that Tom Ludden is gone. I remember well his many contributions
to NONMEM.
He was one of Stuart's original fellows and thus one of the original users of
NONMEM.
He was the voice of calm during the panicky days after Stuart Beal's
unexpected death.
Tom pitched in to help me finalize NONMEM 6 - a task I could never have done on
my own.
He was always calm and thoughtful and friendly and smart.
And then he was able to recruit Bob Bauer (Tom recognized the need for an exit
strategy!)
The many tributes to him in this nmusers thread are inspiring.
-- Alison Boeckmann
Quoted reply history
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 3:51 PM, Bauer, Robert wrote:
> Dear Nmusers:
> The PK/PD scientists here at ICON express our sincere condolences on the
> passing of Tom Ludden. As mentioned by several already, Tom was very
> instrumental in transitioning the NONMEM software development from the labs
> of Beal, Sheiner, and Boeckmann at UCSF, to Globomax, then to ICON. The
> development team at ICON was greatly aided in adding additional features from
> NONMEM VI to NONMEM 7 with his expert direction and his connections with many
> in the PK/PD modeling and population analysis community offering their inputs
> regarding desired features (and fixing a few bugs!). Tom continued with
> ICON all the way through the development of NONMEM 7.2 before his retirement
> in Spring 2011, and oversaw the incorporation of dynamic memory allocation,
> as well as parallel computing that were first incorporated in that version,
> which was a significant milestone in the performance of NONMEM. In a
> retirement speech some years ago Tom expressed that his greatest desire was
> that he was useful to the PK/PD and pharmacometrics field. He certainly
> accomplished this in a way few of us can ever hope to achieve.
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> Robert J. Bauer, Ph.D.
> Senior Director
> Pharmacometrics R&D
> ICON Early Phase
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