Last Friday, I attended the funeral of a dear friend and mentor Richard Carter. As his brother said during the ceremony, we have been left with a “Richard-sized hole” in our lives. He was a giant, both in stature and in the malaria community, which he contributed so much to, and it is a great sadness to me and many others not to be able to share ideas with him and draw on his profound and wide-ranging wisdom. Richard (second from Right) together with (from left to Right) Jake