About Jon van Rood
Lived 1926 – 2017 (aged 91). Jon van Rood was a Dutch physician, biologist and university teacher.
Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926, Scheveningen – 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist. He founded Eurotransplant in 1967, 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 George D. Snell 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 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 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)
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Dutch biologist (1926–2017)
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Jon van Rood was born on 7 April 1926 in Scheveningen.
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Jon van Rood died on 21 July 2017 in Leeuwarden.
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Jon van Rood was a physician, biologist and university teacher.
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