
E. Donnall Thomas
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Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, 1920 – October 20, 2012) was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Thomas and his wife and research partner Dottie Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leuke
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Don Thomas’s “secret weapons”—and how a 1970s BMT database continues to lead to new findings
Dr. Geoffrey Hill 3rd recipient of José Carreras/E. Donnall Thomas Endowed Chair for Cancer Research
KUOW profiles E. Donnall Thomas and his Nobel Prize-winning work on a once 'radical' cure for leukemia
E. Donnall Thomas, Who Advanced Bone Marrow Transplants, Dies at 92 (Published 2012)