Dr. Bruce Blazar presenting the E. Donnall Thomas lecture this year at #ASH22. @JaneWinterMD shares that his lab continues to bring new technology to preventing GvHD. 1/n
Humbly introducing Dr. Thomas and his contributions. (from his 1957 NEJM paper showing you could have natural acquired immunologic tolerance and radioprotection could induce graft tolerance!) Already feel like this #story is going to be so amazing. #ASH22 2/n
Cadaveric transplants! And then in the next 10 years 203 patients got BMTs and died but he pressed on! Then in 1961 they did a identical twin transplant for aplastic anemia! and then Dr. Thomas got the Nobel prize in 1990! 3/n #ASH22 
Next up we learned that you could T cell removal could spare mice from Graft vs Host disease. Moving on to Dr. Blazar's chapters of the story 4/n #ASH22
Love showing #ASHtrainees that we often have to revise our plans! Then they found there was more graft failure with the T cell depletion studies (apparently it took 24-36 hours to do this on the samples!) #ASH22 5/n
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