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American hematologist

Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, &#;– October 20, )^[1] 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 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 marrowtransplantation as a treatment for leukemia.

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Thomas was a lead investigator in a failed series of experimental treatments for leukemia and for Graft-versus-host disease at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from to Participants were not informed that Thomas and other researchers had a potential financial conflict of interest in the trials, and were never properly informed of the risks.

The study continued despite objections from members of the Center’s Internal Review Board. 84 of the 85 participants in the study died.^[2]

Biography

Born in Mart, Texas, Thomas often shadowed his father who was a general practice doctor. Later, he attended the University of Texas at Austin where he studied chemistry and chemical engineering, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in and a Master's degree in While Thomas was an undergraduate he met his wife, Dorothy (Dottie) Martin while she was training to be journalist.

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They had three children. Thomas entered Harvard Medical School in , receiving a Doctor of Medicine in Dottie became a lab technician during this time to support the family, and the pair worked closely thereafter. He did his residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before serving two years in the United States Army as an internist stationed in Germany.^[3][4] "In , he was appointed physician in chief at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, now Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, New York, an affiliate of Columbia University."^[5]

At Mary Imogene Bassett, he began to study rodents that received lethal doses of radiation who were then saved by an infusion of marrow cells.

At the time, patients who underwent bone marrow transplantation all died from infections or immune reactions that weren't seen in the rodent studies.

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Thomas began to use dogs as a model system. In , he moved his lab to the United States Public Health Service in Seattle.^[6]

Thomas also received National Medal of Science in In he was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.^[7]

He died of heart failure.^[6]

Awards and honors

• Hematology Study Section, National Institutes of Health
• Member, Board of Trustees and Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee, Leukemia Society of America, Inc.
• Clinical Cancer Investigation Review Committee, National Cancer Institute
• First Annual Eugene C.

  Eppinger Lecture at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Harvard Medical School

• A. Ross McIntyre Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• The Henry M. Stratton Lecture, American Society of Hematology, Dallas
• The Lilly Lecture, Royal College of Physicians, London
• The Philip Levine Award, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, New Orleans
• American Cancer Society Award for Distinguished Service in Basic Research
• Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for contributions to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer
• Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of Cagliari, Sardinia
• Special Keynote Address Award, American Society of Therapeutic Radiologists
• Stratton Lecture, International Society of Hematology
• Paul Aggeler Lecturer, University of California, San Francisco
• David A.

  Karnofsky Memorial Lecturer, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

• Robert Roesler de Villiers Award, Leukemia Society of American
• Sixty-fifth Mellon Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, May 13
• Stanley Wright Memorial Lecturer, Annual Meeting of the Western Society for Pediatric Research
• Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks,
• President, American Society of Hematology
• Elected Corresponding Member, Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgigue
• Terry Fox Award, Canada
• Gairdner Foundation International Award
• North American Medical Association of Hong Kong Prize
• Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Presidential Medal of Science
• Adolfo Ferrata Lecture, Italian Society of Hematology, Verona, Italy
• Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of Verona
• Kober Medal, American Association of Physicians
• Honorary Member, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of Parma
• Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement^[8]
• Honorary Member, National Academia of Medicine
• Honorary Degree, University of Barcelona
• Honorary Degree, University of Warsaw
• Medal of Merit, State of Washington

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