Johannes Joseph van Rood, Transplantation Pioneer (April 7, 1926, to July 21, 2017)

Jon van Rood, as he was usually known with typical Dutch informality, was a pioneer in hematopoietic cell transplantation and in defining the HLA system in humans. I liked to call him along with late Professor Dirk van Bekkum the “double dutch” (a term given to the complex and challenging sport of jumping within 2 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 - August 25, 2017 Category: Hematology Authors: Robert Peter Gale Source Type: research