Johannes Joseph Van Rood Transplant Pioneer (April 7, 1926-July 21, 2017)

Jon van Rood, as he was usually known with typical Dutch informality, was a pioneer in haematopoietic cell transplantation and in defining the HLA-system in humans. I liked to call him, along with late Prof. Dirk van Bekkum, the Double Dutch (a term given to the complex and challenging sport of jumping within two ropes on seeing it played by Dutch children when the English arrived in New Holland [New York] in 1664).
Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research