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Robert Korngold receives lifetime achievement award from the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

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ROBERT KORNGOLD was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Korngold is chief of the division of research at the John Theurer Cancer Center and chairman of the department of research at Hackensack University Medical Center. The award, presented at the society’s 2016 BMT Tandem Meetings in Honolulu,...

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