Johannes van Rood#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 256 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Johannes van Rood passed away July 21, 2017.
Positions Held
- 2004 - 2008 Member of the Board of Directors of Allostem
- 1998 - ongoing Senior Consultant and Past President of the Europdonor Foundation
- 1991 - ongoing Professor of Internal Medicine Leiden University - Emeritus
- 1987 - ongoing Supervisor for the Training of Immunology Postgraduate Students
- 1992 - ongoing Vice- Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Biomedical Primate Research Center
- 1986 - 1996 Guest Professor "Vrije Universiteit" Bruxelles
- 1976 - 1991 Chairman of the Department of Haematology, Leiden University Hospital
- 1969 - 1991 Professor of Internal Medicine Leiden University
- 1965 - 1969 Lecturer in Internal Medicine Leiden University
- 1957-1991 Head of the Dep. of Immunohaematology, Leiden University Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics of histocompatibility antigens
- Organ and bone marrow transplantation
- Genetic factors in disease
- Blood banking
- Clinical haematology
- Clinical immunology
- Transplantation imunology
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Start of the Jon J van Rood price by the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group
- 2010 Start of the Jon van Rood Award by the European Federation of Immunogenetics
- 2010 Life Time achievement Award of the American Association of Bone Marrow Transplanation
- 2007 Honorary Member of the European Society of Organ Transplantation
- 2006 Honorary Editor of Human Immunology
- 1997 Royal medal of the Dutch Red Cross
- 1993 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
- 1992 Medawar Prize
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK
- 1991 Commander of the Order of Oranje Nassau, the Netherlands
- 1991 Recipient of the Rose Payne Award
- 1991 Recipient of the Max Geldens Prize
- 1990 Recipient of the James Blundell Award of the British Blood Transfusion Society, London
- 1990 Recipient of the Amsterdam Prize for Medicine of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Recipient of the E. Jung-Prize for Medicine, Hamburg
- 1989 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- 1985 Member of the Academia Europea
- 1985 Recipient of the Order of Knighthood of the Dutch Lion
- 1985 Recipient of the Artois-Baillet Latour Prize for the Benefit of Health, Brussels
- 1984 Recipient of the Franz-Oehlecker-Medaille of the German Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology
- 1984 Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy for Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- 1980 Price of the Dutch Federation of Medical Research Societies
- 1980 Honorary Member of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology
- 1979 Honorary Member of the American Association of Immunologists
- 1978 Recipient of the Wolf Prize
- 1977 Recipient of the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award
- 1977 Recipient of the Robert Koch Medaille
- 1973 Recipient of the Dutch Kidney Foundation Prize
