Jon van Rood

Jon van Rood (Robert Koch Prize, Dec. 1977

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.

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] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[4]

Van Rood died on 21 July 2017 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands at the age of 91.[5]

References

  1. ↑ History Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, Eurotransplant. Retrieved on 29 Juli 2017.
  2. ↑ "Robert Koch Stiftung". Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  3. ↑ "Jon van Rood". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Johannes van Rood". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Oprichter Eurotransplant overleden" [Founder Eurotransplant died] (in Dutch). Telegraaf.nl. 29 July 2017. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.

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