The Editors of

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal

would like to congratulate our Distinguished Emeritus Editorial Board Member

   Sir John B. Gurdon

for being awarded the

 2012 Nobel Prize

in Medicine

for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.

"Preserve the strength of my body and of my soul that they ever be ready to cheerfully help and support rich and poor, good and bad, enemy as well as friend. In the suffering individual let me see only the human being. Enlighten my mind that it recognize what presents itself and comprehend what is absent or hidden. Let it not fail to see what is visible, but do not permit it to arrogate to itself the power to see what cannot be seen, for delicate and indefinite are the bounds of the great art of caring for the lives and health of Your living creations"

Excerpt from
Physician's Prayer Attributed to Maimonides