Conditions and diseases

The miracle cure: the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia

An excerpt from Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Late in the summer of 1960, Dr. Clem Finch invited Dr. Don Thomas to Seattle to give a talk about his early experience with transplantation. Clem,…

An excerpt from Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution.

Late in the summer of 1960, Dr. Clem Finch invited Dr. Don Thomas to Seattle to give a talk about his early experience with transplantation. Clem, who had been Thomas’s hematology fellowship instructor at the Brigham in Boston, had since moved to Seattle to join the faculty of the new University of Washington School of Medicine. …

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The miracle cure: the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia