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Article: Bone Marrow Transplant Pioneer Dies at 81
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- June 15, 2003
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Dateline: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Dr. Robert A. Good, a pioneer of modern immunology who performed the
world's first successful human bone marrow transplant, has died. He
was 81.
Good died Friday night at his home surrounded by his family and students,
said Ann Miller, a spokeswoman for All Children's Hospital in St.
Petersburg.
"His concern for children's lives through his work to understand the
immune system and bone marrow transplantation benefited not just the
little ones, but countless thousands of adults who have been saved
through the discoveries he made," said J. Dennis Sexton, former president
of All Children's.
Good performed the world's first bone ...