How Don Thomas’s brilliance and luck led to the invention of BMT and the cell therapy revolution

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“Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution” | By Frederick Appelbaum, MD | Mayo Clinic Press | $27.99

E. Donnall Thomas, the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of bone marrow transplantation, liked to make the point that his life spanned the period of time from when physicians like his own father still made house calls in a horse and buggy, to when T-cells were genetically engineered to be used therapeutically. 

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Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS
Chief, Division of Hematology and Professor of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Author of Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust (MIT Press)
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS
Chief, Division of Hematology and Professor of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Author of Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust (MIT Press)

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