Jon van Rood
John Joseph " Jon" van Rood ( born April 7, 1926 in Scheveningen) is a Dutch immunologist.
Van Rood was the son of an engineer and a musician and studied from 1944 medicine at the University of Leiden. From 1957 to 1991 he was Head of Immunohaematology at the University Hospital of Leiden ( where he received his doctorate in 1962 with the work Leucocyte Grouping ) and professor of internal medicine at the University of Leiden (from 1969 as a full professor, from 1991 as Professor Emeritus). In 1976 he was its board of the Department of Hematology and later director of the Institute of Immunology. In 1962 he was at the Public Health Research Institute of the University of New York and 1986 to 1996 he was a visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels.
He is the founder and former President of the European Foundation of Immunogenetics and Euro Transplant (1967, then for kidney transplants ). He is co-founder of the European Bone Marrow Transplant Group. 2004 to 2008 he was in Leitungsrat of AlloStem. He is a former president of the Europdonor Foundation ( for stem cell transplantation ).
He is one of the discoverers of the HLA system (1958, about the same time as Jean Dausset, R. Payne ) and led HLA typing in the transfusion and transplantation medicine a.
In 1977 he was awarded the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and the Robert Koch Prize. In 1978 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine for his contributions to the understanding of the HLA complex in humans and its role in disease and in transplantation. In 1989 he received the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, 1984, Franz Oehlecker Medal, the James Blundell Award of the British Blood Transfusion Society, the Rose Payne Award ( 1991), the Max Geldens Prize (1991 ), the AH Heineken Prize for Medicine ( 1990), the 1992 Medawar Price and 1997, the Royal medal of the Dutch Red Cross. He is a Knight of the Dutch Lion (1985) and Commander of the Order of Orange- Nassau. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1978), the National Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. He is an honorary member of the American and Scandinavian Societies for Immunology and the European Society for Organ Transplantation, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists.
He is married to Sacha Baroness van Tuyll van Serooskerken since 1956 and has three children. He is an avid sailor who held summer courses for Immunology on a two -masted schooner in the Zuider Sea.
Since 2010 there is the Jon J. van Rood Center for Transfusion Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center ( LUMC ). In each case a prize of the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group and the European Federation of Immunogenetics are named after him since 2010.