Timothy P. Lekin

Timothy Lekin, a former biomedical scientist at the Lab, died Nov. 26. He was 35.

Lekin was the victim of a homicide currently under investigation in Hunt Valley, Md.

Born May 15, 1973, in Williamsburg, Va., he graduated from Gilman School in 1991 and the University of Vermont in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in forest biology.

He was the director of Planning and Administration for the M.S. Willet Company of Cockeysville, Md. He worked at the Laboratory from 1999 to 2006.

Lekin co-authored numerous articles on protein crystallization screening and mycobacterium tuberculosis for scientific publications and was the co-author of three patents and one pending on crystallization screening.

He was an avid fisherman and had taken up golf in the past year. He was devoted to environmental issues and loved animals.

Lekin is survived by his parents James L. Lekin and Sandra Lekin; sister Jeanne Lekin; stepmother Kathleen Ryan Lekin; stepbrothers, Mark and Michael Ryan; birth mother Linda Gray; two nephews and one niece.