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Jon van Rood
Dutch biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926 – 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist. He founded Eurotransplant in 1967,[1] a non-profit organization responsible for encouraging and coordinating organ transplants. He was born in Scheveningen, the Netherlands.
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In 1977 van Rood was awarded the Robert Koch Prize.[2] In 1978, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with George D. Snell and Jean Dausset. van Rood became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.[3]
Van Rood died on 21 July 2017 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands at the age of 91.[4]