Robert A. Good
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| Born | Robert Alan Good May 21, 1922 All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg University of South Florida |
Robert Alan Good
Early life and education
Good was born in
While an undergraduate, he developed a polio-like illness that left him partially paralyzed. His mother pushed his wheelchair into his medical school classrooms. He eventually recovered from the illness, but retained a pronounced limp for the remainder of his life.[1]
Research career
After obtaining his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, Good undertook clinical training in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.[4] After a fellowship year at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he returned to the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1950,[4] where he engaged in research on the immune system. He was promoted in 1962 to the rank of professor in pediatrics, microbiology and pathology, and later also served as head of the Department of Pathology.[6] In 1969 he was appointed as Regent's Professor, one of the highest recognitions of the University of Minnesota.[7]
Among his accomplishments, in 1962 he documented the importance of the thymus gland, in 1965 he documented the important role of the tonsils in developing the immune defense systems of mammals including humans, and in 1968 he led the team that performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between persons who were not identical twins.[8] The patient who received the transplant was a 5-month-old boy with a profound immune deficiency that had earlier led to the deaths of eleven male members of his extended family. The boy received bone marrow transplanted from his 8-year-old sister. The transplant was successful and the boy grew up to become a healthy adult.[8]
In 1972 he went to
Academy and Institute memberships
Good was a member of the
Personal life
Good died from esophageal cancer at age 81 in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was survived at the time by Noorbibi K. Day-Good, his second wife, five children from his first marriage to Jean Good, two step-children and 17 grandchildren.[8]
Awards
- 1955 E. Mead Johnson Award
- 1970 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research[10]
- 1970 Gairdner Foundation International Award.[1]Gairdner Awardees
- 1970 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[11]
- 1972 American College of Physicians Award[1]
- 1975 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award[1]
- 1987 John Howland Award
References
- ^ The Journal of Immunology, 2003, 171: 6318-6319.
- ^ E. Donnall Thomas, Bone Marrow Transplantation — Past, Present and Future, Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990
- ^ "Robert Alan Good (1922-2003) | the Embryo Project Encyclopedia".
- ^ a b c Curriculum Vitae: Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., FACP Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Robert A. Good Archives (accessed January 27, 2008)
- ^ Concise Autobiography by Robert A. Good, 1997, Robert A. Good Archives (accessed January 27, 2008)
- ^ "Association News" American Journal of Public Health, 1972, 62 (5): 741 (accessed December 15, 2008)
- ^ In Memoriam: Robert A. Good, MD, PhD, by John A. Hansen, Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2003, 23 (6): 539-540 (accessed December 15, 2008)
- ^ a b c Robert A. Good, 81, Founder Of Modern Immunology, Dies, by Wolfgang Saxon, The New York Times, June 18, 2003
- ^ Peterson, Raymond D. A. (2010). "Robert Alan Good 1922–2003" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Former Winners, Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research: Robert A. Good Obituary, Lasker Foundation website (accessed January 27, 2008)
- American Academy of Achievement.
Further reading
- Ribatti, Domenico (2006), "The fundamental contribution of Robert A. Good to the discovery of the crucial role of thymus in mammalian immunity", Immunology, vol. 119, no. 3 (published Nov 2006), pp. 291–5, PMID 17067308
- Nezelof, Christian; Seemayer, Thomas A (2004), "[Robert Alan Good or the genius intuitions of an immunologist]", La Revue du praticien, vol. 54, no. 10 (published May 31, 2004), pp. 1153–7, PMID 15369160
- O'Reilly, Richard J (2003), "Robert Alan Good, MD, PhD", Biol. Blood Marrow Transplant., vol. 9, no. 10 (published Oct 2003), pp. 608–9, PMID 14569556
External links
- Robert A. Good Archives
- The Robert A. Good Papers can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.
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