Lucie Tang, a senior research engineer in the Division of Radiological Sciences in the Department of Radiology, died Jan. 11, 2010, after a nearly two-year battle with cancer. She was 43.
Michael J. Welch, Ph.D., professor of radiology, said Lucie was a productive scientist who performed first-rate research.
“Lucie was involved in the engineering aspects of producing radioactive drugs for diagnosis and therapy,” Welch said. “She not only carried out science at the highest level but attended both national and international meetings and edited the proceedings of a workshop that she helped organize in Aachen, Germany, in 2007.
“Lucie will be remembered by all of us as a remarkably cheerful person whose characteristic was displayed through all the time I knew her, particularly toward the end of her life,” Welch said.
She is well known for coediting the book, “Proceedings of a Workshop on the production, application and clinical translation of ‘non-standard’ PET nuclides: A meeting report.”
A native of Quebec, Canada, Tang is survived by her husband, Richard Laforest, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology; a son, Jerome; her mother and three brothers.
Services were held Jan. 15 at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Shrewsbury, Mo.
Memorial contributions may be made to Siteman Cancer Center/Oncologic Imaging Program, Campus Box 1204, 7425 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 63105.