Jon van Rood
Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (born April 7, 1926 in Scheveningen ; † July 21, 2017 in Leeuwarden ) was a Dutch immunologist .
Van Rood was the son of an engineer and a musician and studied medicine at the University of Leiden from 1944 . From 1957 to 1991 he was head of the immunohaematology department at the Leiden University Clinic (where he received his doctorate in 1962 with the thesis Leucocyte Grouping ) and professor of internal medicine at the University of Leiden (from 1969 as full professor, from 1991 as professor emeritus). In 1976 he became head of the Faculty of Hematology and later director of the Institute for Immunology. In 1962 he was at the Public Health Research Institute of the University of New York and from 1986 to 1996 he was visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels .
He was the founder and former president of the European Foundation of Immunogenetics and Eurotransplant (1967, then for kidney transplants). He is co-founder of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). From 2004 to 2008 he was on the management board of Allostem . He was President of the Europdonor Foundation (for stem cell transplantation ).
He was one of the discoverers of the HLA system (1958, roughly at the same time as Jean Dausset , R. Payne) and introduced HLA typing into transfusion and transplant medicine.
In 1977 he received the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and the Robert Koch Prize . In 1978 he received the Wolf Prize in Medicine for his contributions to the understanding of the HLA complex in humans and its role in disease and in transplants. In 1989 he received the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, in 1984 the Franz Oehlecker Medal, the James Blundell Award from the British Blood Transfusion Society, the Rose Payne Award (1991), the Max Geldens Prize (1991), the AH-Heineken Prize for Medicine (1990), the Medawar Prize in 1992 and the Royal Medal of the Dutch Red Cross in 1997. He was Knight of the Dutch Lion (1985) and Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau . He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1978), the National Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea . He was an honorary member of the US and Scandinavian Societies for Immunology, the European Society for Organ Transplantation, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists.
He was married to Sacha Baroness van Tuyll van Serooskerken from 1956 and has three children. One of his hobbies was sailing . He also held summer immunology courses on a two-masted schooner in the Zuider See.
The Jon J. van Rood Center for Transfusion Medicine at the Medical Center of the University of Leiden (LUMC) has existed since 2010. A prize each from the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group and the European Federation of Immunogenetics have been named after him since 2010.
In 1985 he received the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize .
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| SURNAME | Rood, Jon van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rood, Johannes van; Rood, Jon J. van; Rood, John J. van; Rood, Johannes Joseph van (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scheveningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2017 |
| Place of death | Leeuwarden |