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Chandigarh: With the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) taking the initiative to develop a network of phase 1 clinical trial units (CTUs) across the country, the PGI is one of the four selected units so far which will play a crucial role in evaluating new drug, diagnostics and devices in the early phases of clinical development, commonly referred as exploratory clinical trials, fostering innovation and promoting indigenous research in particular.
Other three selected institutions are KEM Mumbai; Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Mumbai; and SRM Chennai.
“Over the past two years, the ICMR has been inspecting sites by rigorous inspections, presentations and on-site evaluations by expert teams to ensure they meet the highest standards,” said Prof Nusrat Shafiq, clinical pharmacology unit, department of pharmacology, PGI.
ICMR is keen that the existing unit was built in the last decade with support from Central Drug Research Institute, under the guidance of Prof Samir Malhotra, head of the department pharmacology. ICMR has proposed that PGI enhances its clinical trial unit by increasing its bed strength from four to eight for the participating volunteer/patient, creating dedicated areas for sampling and upgrading the existing units for enabling more types of exploratory studies in participants. “We would increase the unit this way for more nuanced studies so that it gives a boost to drug development in India,” said PGI director Prof Vivek Lal.
PGI’s unit has been actively supporting translational research by means of early (exploratory) clinical trials of new drugs and vaccines and now new devices.
The network is now supported by ICMR for optimising processes of these CTUs. The unit at PGI has conducted first in human studies of indigenously developed drug molecules and devices by colleagues/teams within the institute and collaborating institutes. The current team led by Prof Nusrat Shafiq is multi-disciplinary in nature and working towards improving processes, providing training on the special skills, capacity building and hand holding besides actual planning and conduct of such studies.
The advantages of these ICMR-supported networks are manifold. Firstly, they prioritise Indian developers, fostering a conducive environment for home-grown innovations. Secondly, they facilitate capacity building by providing specialised training and resources, enabling researchers to take their molecules further along the development pipeline. Additionally, these studies can be seamlessly expanded to other centres within the network, allowing for a broader representation of diverse populations and expediting the generation of comprehensive results.
“This project is for five years for which we have been allotted a dedicated budget, manpower, and training support. The vision is to develop larger, globally competitive units that meet international standards,” said Prof Nusrat. If a promising molecule or technology emerges from any institution, the ICMR’s network, including PGI, will lend its expertise and resources to facilitate its early phase translation.
First-in-human study was done in PGI in 2006
PGI is one of the oldest units for phase 1 clinical trials where the first-in-human study was conducted in 2006. This was on an anti-malarial drug molecule developed by Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow. PGI was asked to take it further and a joint protocol was developed and delivered upon.
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There was a time when there were a few games based on The Matrix movies, and they were even pretty good at times. Today, while video game adaptations are tougher to come by (although you can be Neo or Trinity in Fortnite), fans shouldn’t sleep on a tabletop opportunity to delve into the Matrix, with Upper Deck’s Legendary Encounters: The Matrix deckbuilding game, available on Amazon.
If you’re a tabletop or deckbuilding game fan but unfamiliar with the Legendary series, you’re missing out. They’re a series of cooperative games you can play solo or with friends where you battle against the deck, and they’re constructed really well to capture the feeling of venturing into the licensed worlds they’re trying to portray. The first Legendary game was a Marvel superheroes deckbuilder and has a ton of expansions, but I have the first Legendary Encounters, where the franchise expanded into movies with the Alien franchise. While that one seems to be out of print, the game manages to replicate the specific feel of the original Alien franchise, but with cards, and not only is it a fun and well-designed game, it’s genuinely pretty tense for a game you play with cards.
Legendary Encounters: The Matrix was released in 2023, and captures the same feel of the films and lets you join up with up to four other players, and includes characters like Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus, as well as villains such as Agent Smith and the Merovingian. The game is played not only with cards, but with a special playmat that dictates the flow of the game and makes learning it a little easier, as well.
There are actually a ton of Legendary Encounters games, dipping into lots of different media franchises–some of which are even a little unexpected. In addition to the Alien game (which I can’t recommend enough), there’s also an X-Files edition and a James Bond edition, which also has several expansions based on different movies. Check out the list below, and find more on Amazon.
And if the Matrix deckbuilding game inspires a rewatch of the film series, you can buy the four-film collection on 4K Blu-ray for $60.
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Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the moon’s surface, bright enough to be visible from a backyard telescope. Some people think they look like the brushstrokes in an abstract painting. But these are not mere artistic flourishes: NASA images show that the tendrils from some lunar swirls extend for hundreds of miles.
Lunar swirls have defied easy explanation, but recent modeling and spacecraft data shed light on the twisty mystery. The data shows that rocks in the swirls are magnetized, and these rocks deflect or redirect solar wind particles that constantly bombard the moon. Nearby rocks take the hit instead. Over time, neighboring rocks become darkened by chemical reactions caused by the collisions, while the swirls remain light colored.
But how did the rocks in lunar swirls get magnetized? The moon does not have a magnetic field today. No astronaut or rover has yet visited a lunar swirl to investigate.
“Impacts could cause these types of magnetic anomalies,” said Michael J. Krawczynski, an associate professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He notes that meteorites regularly deliver iron-rich material to areas on the moon’s surface. “But there are some swirls where we’re just not sure how an impact could create that shape and that size of thing.”
Krawczynski believes it’s more likely that something else has locally magnetized the swirls.
“Another theory is that you have lavas underground, cooling slowly in a magnetic field and creating the magnetic anomaly,” said Krawczynski, who designed experiments to test this explanation. His results are published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Krawczynski and study first author Yuanyuan Liang, who recently earned her Ph.D. in Earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, measured the effects of different combinations of atmospheric chemistry and magmatic cooling rates on a mineral called ilmenite to see if they could produce a magnetizing effect.
“Earth rocks are very easily magnetized because they often have tiny bits of magnetite in them, which is a magnetic mineral,” Krawczynski said. “A lot of the terrestrial studies that have focused on things with magnetite are not applicable to the moon, where you don’t have this hyper-magnetic mineral.”
But ilmenite, which is abundant on the moon, can also react and form particles of iron metal, which can be magnetized under the right conditions, Krawczynski and his team found.
“The smaller grains that we were working with seemed to create stronger magnetic fields because the surface area to volume ratio is larger for the smaller grains compared to the larger grains,” Liang said. “With more exposed surface area, it is easier for the smaller grains to undergo the reduction reaction.”
“Our analog experiments showed that at lunar conditions, we could create the magnetizable material that we needed. So, it’s plausible that these swirls are caused by subsurface magma,” said Krawczynski, who is a faculty fellow in the university’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
Determining the origin of lunar swirls is considered key in understanding what processes have shaped the lunar surface, the history of a magnetic field on the moon and even how the surfaces of planets and moons generally affect the space environment surrounding them.
This study will help interpret data acquired by future missions to the moon, especially those that explore magnetic anomalies on the lunar surface. NASA intends to send a rover to the lunar swirl area known as Reiner Gamma in 2025 as part of the Lunar Vertex mission.
“If you’re going to make magnetic anomalies by the methods that we describe, then the underground magma needs to have high titanium,” Krawczynski said. “We have seen hints of this reaction creating iron metal in lunar meteorites and in lunar samples from Apollo. But all of those samples are surface lava flows, and our study shows cooling underground should significantly enhance these metal-forming reactions.”
For now, his experimental approach is the best way to test predictions about how unseen lava may be driving the magnetic effects of the mysterious lunar swirls.
“If we could just drill down, we could see if this reaction was happening,” Krawczynski said. “That would be great, but it’s not possible yet. Right now, we’re stuck with the surface.”
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Microsoft discontinued its foldable devices – known as Surface Duo – in 2023. However, the company is said to have attempted one last shot at a folding phone, and reportedly developed a Surface Duo 3 before scrapping it. A recently discovered patent suggests that the next generation Surface device would have looked like, with a single continuous display and a kickstand at the back. This development comes after the discovery of a similar patent in March which suggested that the Surface might yet have a Lazarus moment.
According to a patent application discovered by PatentlyApple, Microsoft may have scrapped plans for a device that could have become the Surface Duo 3. The patent reveals that it would have featured a single continuous display – a big change from the dual-screen Surface Duo which never properly took off and was shut down by the company last year.
The device would have featured a magnetically attached kickstand at the back, enabling the user to place it on a table vertically or horizontally, without requiring any third-party accessories or cases. The patent also suggests a triple camera setup at the back of the foldable device with a module similar in shape to Apple’s iPhone Pro models. Another design element of the device would have been its power button, which could be used to unfold it. In theory, this would have made opening it manually redundant.
The patent is said to have been filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on June 20. Although it was filed for a “kickstand for opening foldable computing device”, it mentions a device with a “flexible” display with support hinges which can fold 180 degrees. This device is speculated to be the now-cancelled Surface Duo device. Notably, it was revealed a few months ago that Microsoft discarded plans for a similar device which it codenamed Project Neon.
Interestingly, the patent application also mentions another device with a flexible display with support hinges that can be rotated 360 degrees so that the single continuous display is face-to-face.
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SoftBank will own just over half of Monet, the new business, while Toyota will hold the rest.
It’s the latest in a series of driverless development partnerships announced by tech companies and carmakers. SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund, its tech-focused investment arm, had already committed $2.3 billion to General Motors’ self-driving car unit GM Cruise.
On Wednesday, Honda (HMC) and General Motors (GM) said they were teaming up to create a new generation of fully autonomous vehicles. BMW (BMWYY) has joined the board of Apollo, an autonomous driving project from Chinese internet firm Baidu (BIDU).
2. Facebook under investigation: The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched a formal probe into a Facebook (FB) hack that affected as many as 50 million accounts.
The commission will investigate whether the company complied with its obligations under new European data protection laws that came into effect in May. Facebook said last week that it closed the loophole, but 90 million users were forcefully logged out of their accounts as a precaution.
Irish regulators are investigating because Facebook’s international headquarters is in Dublin.
There are still many unanswered questions about the hack: Who carried it out? And what were they trying to access?
3. Bonds sell-off: The yield on 10-year US Treasuries has spiked to the highest level in seven years following the release of positive economic data.
US hiring data published Wednesday was stronger than expected, and momentum could continue Thursday if initial claims numbers add to the optimism. A strong US economy and the expectation of rate hikes by the Federal Reserve are fueling the trend.
“The underlying message is that the US economy isn’t just in fine fettle, it’s on fire,” said Kit Juckes, strategist at Societe Generale.
4. CNN means business: On Thursday, CNNMoney becomes the all-new CNN Business, covering the companies, personalities, and innovations driving business forward.
This new initiative will focus on the single biggest financial story of our generation: how technology is upending every corner of the global economy, forcing businesses, workers, and society itself to adapt rapidly, or be left behind.
5. Global market overview: US stock futures were lower.
European markets dropped in early trade following a negative trading session in Asia. The Shanghai Composite was closed for a holiday.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 0.2% higher on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 added 0.1% and the Nasdaq gained 0.3%.
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6. Earnings and economics: Constellation Brands (STZ) will release earnings before the open. Costco (COST) is set to follow after the close.
Shares in Danske Bank (DNKEY) opened 3% lower after the Danish lender said it had received requests for information from the US Department of Justice in connection to its money laundering scandal.
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Thursday — Costco (COST) earnings; CNN Business launches
Friday — US jobs report
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The latest entry in Ti West’s horror franchise follows Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), a porn actress who survived a massacre on a farm in Texas, as she tries to forge a new life and career in 1980s Hollywood.
From our review:
A psychosexual thriller imagined in blood red and cocaine white, “MaXXXine,” the third installment in Ti West’s nostalgia-soaked slasher saga, is part grungy homage to 1980s Hollywood and part sleazy feminist manifesto. Darker, moodier and altogether nastier than its predecessors — “X” (2022) and, later that same year, “Pearl” — this hyperconfident feature is also funny, occasionally wistful and deeply empathetic toward its damaged, driven heroine.
In theaters. Read the full review.
Eddie Murphy reprises his role as the detective Axel Foley, who first appeared in the 1984 blockbuster “Beverly Hills Cop.” Here he reunites with his estranged daughter and tries to extricate her from a dirty-cop conspiracy in this action-comedy directed by Mark Molloy.
From our review:
Murphy returns with the same Detroit Lions jacket, his familiar chuckle and his movie star grin. But there’s little to smile about in this painfully lackluster retread desperately trying to justify its own existence … Molloy’s film is a slog: The dirty cop mystery is half-baked; the visual effects are half-rendered; the action lacks any sense of physical space.
Watch on Netflix. Read the full review.
After a rival villain (Will Ferrell) vows revenge on Gru (Steve Carell), he and his family must go into witness protection in the latest film in this lucrative children’s franchise, this one directed by Chris Renaud.
From our review:
As the movie noisily stretches itself out in too many directions, it largely sheds any meaningful charm or heart and struggles to cohere around a central story with actual stakes. … There’s still occasional fun to be had and a budget that’s clearly put to use, but we’re mostly here, it seems, to keep the Minion cash cow chugging along.
In theaters. Read the full review.
This comedy by Liz W. Garcia bears more than a passing resemblance to “Legally Blonde” and stars Emma Roberts as a Florida bartender who wants to become an astronaut despite her lack of qualifications.
From our review:
Most of the characters feel more like familiar types than actual people — not uncommon in a fast-paced, lighthearted comedy. But that means there’s nothing surprising enough in the movie to prompt laughter. The jokes feel tired. The actors are mostly doing their best, but the screenplay too often leaves them mimicking comedy rather than performing it.
Watch on Prime Video. Read the full review.
When a group of thieves attack the passengers of an express train, army commando Amrit (Lakshya) teams up with his military buddy (Abhishek Chauhan) to take down the horde in this brutal action-thriller from Nikhil Nagesh Bha.
From our review:
We are almost halfway through the Indian action extravaganza “Kill” before the title card slams onscreen, by which point its simple imperative — and the film’s entire raison d’être — has been obeyed so many times it’s essentially redundant. Much like the movie’s English subtitles: The dialogue might be in Hindi, but the language of blood and bones is universal.
In theaters. Read the full review.
A cruel matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) refuses to get up from a couch in a furniture store, forcing her adult children to confront her in this dramedy from Niclas Larsson.
From our review:
While the film’s premise may suggest black comedy (and the sometimes fake-jaunty, fake-portentous score by Christopher Bear underscores that idea), Burstyn’s character, which the actor plays with her customary expertise, is so utterly disagreeable that viewing the picture is a mostly anxious experience with not much of a reward at the end, which shifts to magic realist mode for lack of anywhere better to go.
In theaters. Read the full review.
In this animated charmer directed by Yoshiyuki Momose, an imaginary friend, Rudger (voiced by Kokoro Terada) goes on a magical quest to rescue the girl who dreamed him up.
From our review:
It’s a visually splendid film with a restless inventiveness — too restless, at times. The movie falters periodically under the weight of its own dream logic, which can be hard to follow or flimsily constructed as the story gains momentum. But it’s mostly easy to move past those flaws in a work of such rich magical realism and heart.
Watch on Netflix. Read the full review.
When a couple in a rocky relationship rents a shared-space Airbnb, they clash with each other and their reclusive host in this indie directed by and starring Kit Zauhar.
From our review:
The film’s stripped-down aesthetic is mirrored in the actors’ performances; they deliver straightforward lines with a hint of self-consciousness and discomfort, even between friends and lovers. It’s as if the closeness is projected through a scrim, which creates a kind of purposeful clumsiness the audience can feel, too. When actual physical contact occurs, it’s almost jarring.
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President Biden had a message on Friday for Democrats and others who are calling on him to drop his reelection bid after last week’s debate: “I am going to run and I’m going to win again.”
Speaking to supporters in the battleground state of Wisconsin on Friday, the president reiterated that he won’t be forced out as the Democratic presidential nominee amid a chorus of criticism and concern sparked by his startling debate performance. After a week of working to assuage concerns about his fitness for a second term, Mr. Biden stood his ground.
“Now, you probably heard we had a little debate last week,” the president said after taking the stage in Madison. “Can’t say it was my best performance. But ever since then, there’s been a lot of speculation. What’s Joe going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? Is he going to drop out, what’s he going to do? Well, here’s my answer: I am going to run and I’m going to win again.”
The president cited the results of the primary process, which was tightly controlled by the Democratic Party and featured no serious challengers to his renomination.
“I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party,” the president said. “You voted for me to be your nominee, no one else. You, the voters, did that. And despite that, some folks don’t seem to care who you voted for. Well, guess what: they’re trying to push me out of the race. Well, let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race.”
Despite his much stronger voice compared to last week’s debate, the president still fumbled.
“I’m staying in the race. I’ll beat Donald Trump. I will beat him again in 2020,” the president said, before realizing his error and correcting himself to say “2024.”
Behind the president, among the group of energetic supporters holding signs was one young man with a sign that read, “Pass the torch, Joe.” Someone else in the stands covered up his sign, and the young man crumpled it.
Mr. Biden’s public appearances are under renewed scrutiny following his halting debate performance against former President Donald Trump, and the rally in Wisconsin kicked off what could be a critical weekend for his hopes to reassure Democrats that he can stay in the race.
In Wisconsin, Mr. Biden is taping an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, which will air in full Friday night. The president will also head to Philadelphia for another campaign event on Sunday, capping the July 4 holiday weekend with a visit to a second battleground state.
Democrats who spoke before the president in Madison alluded to the challenging political environment.
“What a week,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “What a week. First, let’s acknowledge it — rough debate. One guy needed a lozenge, the other guy needed a lie detector and a conscience and a reminder that he’s not running for dictator of North Korea.”
“It’s going to come down to a few states, and Wisconsin is one of those states,” Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan said. “And don’t think for a second that this is going to be easy. Just in the last week, some say that the snow globe of the election has been shaken. But you know what hasn’t been shaken? The resolve of the people.”
In a pair of radio interviews that aired Thursday, Mr. Biden admitted he had a “bad debate” and that he “screwed up.”
Mr. Biden’s campaign and the White House sought to brush off concerns about his lackluster performance by insisting he had a cold and that the debate fiasco was simply a “bad night.” As part of efforts to quiet concerns about Mr. Biden and his age, he and Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a call with campaign staff on Wednesday, and they met with 20 Democratic governors at the White House later that evening. Mr. Biden also spoke with the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, as well as other key allies on Capitol Hill.
One of the governors who attended the White House meeting, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, praised Mr. Biden for his work over the last four years and reiterated that she is committed to defeating Trump in November. But Healey also urged the president to examine the path forward, while stopping short of saying he should step aside.
“The best way forward right now is a decision for the president to make,” she said in a statement. “Over the coming days, I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump.”
The president has maintained the same message throughout the outreach, according to participants: he is in the race to defeat Trump and will not be pushed out.
“I learned from my father, when you get knocked down, just get back up, get back up,” Mr. Biden told “The Earl Ingram Show,” which airs in Wisconsin, in the radio interview Thursday. “And you know we’re going to win this election, we’re going to just beat Donald Trump.”
Amid the assurances, a handful of House Democrats have openly called on Mr. Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, including Reps. Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. Others, meanwhile, have publicly urged the president to take steps to prove to voters, elected Democrats and party donors that he is fit for a second term in the White House.
Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.
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President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some major Democratic donors ahead of a critical few days in his campaign for re-election.
A number of donors are publicly warning they will withhold funds unless Mr Biden is replaced as the party’s candidate following his disastrous debate performance last week.
Friday is a big day for the president as he seeks to shore up his candidacy with a rare primetime TV interview and a rally in Wisconsin.
Pressure on Mr Biden, 81, to step aside has grown following a debate marked by several instances where he lost his train of thought.
While he admitted that he “screwed up” that night, he has vowed to stay on as his party’s standard-bearer taking on Donald Trump in the November presidential election.
Scrutiny on his public appearances has markedly increased since the debate.
In a White House speech to military families on Thursday to mark 4 July Independence Day, he stumbled over his words when referring to Trump as “one of our colleagues, the former president”.
And in an interview with WURD radio in Philadelphia, he lost his thread and appeared to say he was proud to be the first black woman to serve with a black president.
Donors have been weighing their options. Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, told business news channel CNBC that she did not believe Mr Biden could win against Trump.
She said her intent to pull support was rooted in “realism, not disrespect”.
“Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high.”
The consequences of defeat in November “will be genuinely dire”, she added.
Ms Disney has given thousands of dollars to left-leaning political groups this year, according to Federal Election Commission records. But a spokesperson for the Biden campaign told BBC News she has not donated to the campaign directly this cycle.
A handful of other wealthy donors have conveyed similar intent.
Philanthropist Gideon Stein told the New York Times that his family was withholding $3.5m (£2.8m) to non-profit and political organisations active in the presidential race unless Mr Biden steps aside.
Hollywood producer Damon Lindelof, who has donated more than $100,000 to Democrats this election cycle, wrote a public essay in Deadline urging other donors to withhold their funds until there is a change.
The brother of Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, told a conference in Colorado that withholding funding was the key to ensuring Mr Biden’s exit from the race, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
“The lifeblood to a campaign is money, and maybe the only way . . . is if the money starts drying up,” he said, according to the newspaper.
Ramesh Kapur, a Massachusetts-based Indian-American industrialist, has organised fundraisers for Democrats since 1988.
“I think it’s time for him to pass the torch,” Mr Kapur told the BBC this week. “I know he has the drive, but you can’t fight Mother Nature.”
There are some who are worried there’s not enough time left for a new candidate to join the race, and they have decided to back Biden if he stays on.
A mega-donor the BBC spoke to this week, who declined to be named, said he planned to go ahead with a fundraiser for the president scheduled for later this month at his Virginia home.
The Biden campaign has said it raised $38m from debate day through to the weekend, mainly through small donations – and a total of $127m in June alone.
They have conceded he had a difficult debate but have said he is ready to show the public he has the stamina for the campaign.
On Friday morning they announced a new “aggressive travel schedule” in which he and his wife, along with Vice-President Kamala Harris and her husband, would blitz every battleground state.
He will start with a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday, campaigning with Governor Tony Evers.
After that rally he is scheduled to sit down with ABC – the first television interview after the debate – in a bid to quell concerns about his age and mental faculties.
But the president is facing a series of negative polls which suggest his Republican rival’s lead has widened in the wake of the Atlanta debate.
A New York Times poll published on Wednesday suggested Trump was now holding his biggest lead yet at six points.
And a separate poll published by the BBC’s US partner CBS News suggested a slight shift towards Trump, who had a three-point lead over Mr Biden in the crucial battleground states.
Brajesh Upadhyay contributed to this report
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In the 2022 interview, Williams said he still regularly heard from Walker, adding: “One thing that eats at him is why the Bulls never retired his number, 25. He’ll say, ‘You and I helped save basketball in Chicago.’ And they did retire Bob Love’s number and Jerry Sloan’s, so why wouldn’t they retire Chet’s?”
Chester Walker was born on Feb. 22, 1940, in Bethlehem, Miss., the youngest of John and Regenia Walker’s 10 children. His family owned a small cotton farm, on which Walker worked until his mother, after losing a daughter in 1950 to tuberculosis and suffering from her husband’s physical abuse, moved with her youngest children to Benton Harbor, Mich.
Experiencing integration for the first time, Walker starred at Benton Harbor High School and earned a scholarship to Bradley University, where he was a two-time consensus All-America, averaging 24.4 points and 12.8 rebounds over three seasons. Nicknamed “Chet the Jet,” he was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals in the second round, made the N.B.A.’s All-Rookie team and moved to Philadelphia with the franchise in 1963. He finished with career averages of 18.2 points and 7.1 rebounds.
Information on Walker’s survivors was not immediately available.
Walker’s mentor in the film industry and connection to Hollywood was the producer Zev Braun, a neighbor in Chicago. Braun was executive producer of Walker’s debut 1979 production, “Freedom Road,” a television mini-series about a former slave who rose to the United States Senate during Reconstruction. The series, based on a 1944 novel by Howard Fast, starred Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson.
Walker’s 1989 television series, “A Mother’s Courage,” co-produced with Richard L. O’Connor, won an Emmy in the Outstanding Children’s Program category. Starring Alfre Woodard, it was based on the life of Mary Thomas, a single mother who fought to protect her nine children on Chicago’s impoverished West Side and whose youngest, Isiah, became one of the N.B.A.’s most prolific point guards.
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