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Dr. Donald Metcalf is well known for his pioneering work on the regulation of blood cell formation. Beginning in 1965, he worked to co-develop specialized culture techniques for growing blood cells, which led to the discovery of colony-stimulating factors (CSFs), hormones that regulate white blood cell formation. Dr. Metcalf's work led to the successful cloning and mass production of CSFs, which can speed recovery in cancer patients following chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Dr. Metcalf has received many prestigious honors during his career, including the Lasker Award for Clinical Medicine, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University, and the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Dr. Metcalf will be speaking about his life's work and pioneering discoveries at one of the 2008 ASH Annual Meeting Pioneers in Hematology sessions.
We encourage you to honor Dr. Metcalf by sharing your thoughts or stories through the Legends in Hematology Guestbook or by making a special gift to ASH. |
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