Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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The American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation presented three awards at its annual meeting.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to George W. Santos, M.D. Santos founded the Johns Hopkins Bone Marrow Transplantation Program in 1968. Laboratory studies completed early in his career remain key to current understanding of transplantation immunology, graft-versus-host disease, and tolerance.

The ASBMT Public Service Award was awarded to Susan Stewart, founder of the Blood & Marrow Transplant Newsletter and director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Network. She also is the author of the popular patient guidebook, Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients.

Robert A. Good, M.D, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and distinguished research professor at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and physician-in-chief at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, gave the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture. In 1968 Good performed the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant, carried out for an infant with severe combined immunodeficiency.