Timothy Raymond Winship

Retired research scientist Timothy R. Winship, 72, died Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in hospice care in Columbus, Ohio. The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer.

Winship was born on May 28, 1953, in Canandaigua, NY, where his father owned a drugstore and his mother worked in the city’s public school system. He was graduated from Canandaigua Academy, a public high school, and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester (NY), followed by a Ph.D. in microbiology and virology from the University of Buffalo, post-doctoral work at the University of Connecticut and a fellowship at Yale University’s School of Medicine.

Winship’s research work took him from Daryl Laboratories in California to the Department of Immunology at Ross Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. According to the website ResearchGate, Winship collaborated on 20 research works with more than 800 citations in various publications, including Nature, the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Virology Journal, Methods in Enzymology, and Military Medicine.

An avid and accomplished amateur astronomer, he is survived by his wife Sheila M. Winship of Monroe, NY, and his siblings James (wife Joan) of Solomons, Maryland; Michael of South Norwalk, Connecticut; and Patricia of Syracuse, NY. Immediate family will gather at a later date to share graveside remembrances. Interment will be in a family plot at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Canandaigua, NY.