Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926,

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– 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist. He founded Eurotransplant in 1967,History
Eurotransplant. Retrieved on 29 Juli 2017. a non-profit organization responsible for encouraging and coordinating organ transplants.

Awards

In 1977 van Rood was awarded the Robert Koch Prize. In 1978, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with

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and Jean Dausset, "for his contribution to the understanding of the complexity of the HLA system in man and its implications in transplantation and in disease." Van Rood was elected a member of the

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in 1978. In 1989 he was awarded the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine.

Death

He died on 21 July 2017 in Leeuwarden.

Publications (sel.)

Johannes Joseph van Rood: ''Leucocyte grouping''. Den Haag, 1962 (Dissertation Leiden University)

References

External links

Profile at KNAW
*Geoff Watt
Obituary Johannes Joseph van Rood
The Lancet, 11 November 2017, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32739-3 1926 births 2017 deaths Dutch immunologists Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Physicians from The Hague Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences {{Netherlands-med-bio-stub