Johannes Joseph van Rood - Curriculum vitae#
Full CV
Medical training (1945-1952)
- University of Leiden and Presbyterian Hospital, (Dr. R.F. Loeb), New York, N.Y., U.S.A (1944-1952)
Resident and postgraduate training
- Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Leiden 1952-1957
- Training in blood banking, Amsterdam 1953
- Specialist in Internal Medicine (equivalent to US Board Examination) 1957
- Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) 1962
- Sabbatical year at the Department of Immunology, Public Health Research, Institute of the City of New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (head: Dr. F.L. Adler)1962-1963
- Certificate "Immunology" of the Registry of Immunologists of the Dutch Society of Immunology 1981
- Sabbatical Dept. de Microbiologie C.M.U., Faculté de Médecine Genève Feb.- Apr. 1986
Appointments
- Head of the Dep. of Immunohaematology, Leiden University Hospital 1957 - 1991
- Lecturer in Internal Medicine Leiden University 1965 - 1969
- Professor of Internal Medicine Leiden University 1969 - 1991
- Chairman of the Department of Haematology, Leiden University Hospital 1976 - 1991
- Guest Professor "Vrije Universiteit" Bruxelles 1986 - 1996
- Vice- Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Biomedical Primate Research Center 1992 - ongoing
- Supervisor for the Training of Immunology Postgraduate Students 1987 - ongoing
- Professor of Internal Medicine Leiden University - Emeritus 1991 – ongoing
- Senior Consultant and Past President of the Europdonor Foundation 1998 - ongoing
- Member of the Board of Directors of Allostem 2004 - 2008
Initiatives
- Founder and President of the Eurotransplant Foundation 1967 - 1996
- Founder and President of the Europdonor Foundation (incorporated 1988) 1972 – 1998
- Initiator and Co-Founder of the European Blood and Marrow Transplant group 1974 -1998
- Founder and President of the European Foundation of Immunogenetics 1985 - 1990
- Co-founder and Chairman of Leiden Institute for Immunology 1986 – 1991
- Founder and chairman of Bone Marrow Donors World wide 1988 – ongoing
- Cofounder and First President of The World Marrow Donor Association 1988 - ????
Advisory Committee Membership, Editorial Board, etc.
- Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (section Physics) 1978 - ongoing
- Advisor of the Primate Center TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands 1965 - 1992
- Member of the International Scientific Council of the “Foundation Cardiologique Princesse Liliane" (Chairman since 1991) 1985 - 1998
- ESHI Member Advisory Board European School of Hematology 1985 - ongoing
- Member of the "Stiftungsrat der Paul Ehrlich-Stiftung"
- Member of "Scientific Advisory Committee of the Anthony Nolan Laboratories" 1992
- Member International Advisory Committee Netherlands Cancer Institute 1986 - 1998
- Member of the Academia Europaea 1986 - ongoing
- European Editor of Human Immunology 1982 – 2006
- Associate Editor Bone Marrow Transplantation
Honorary Lectures
- John G. Gibson II Lecture for the Columbia University, U.S.A. 1967
- Heberden Oration for the Heberden Society, London, UK 1983
- Niels Jerne Lecture, Les Embiez, France 1990
- P. Grabar Lecture, Paris, France 1990
- Croonian Lecture for the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK 1990
- Blundell Lecture, London, UK 1990
- Shirley Nolan Lecture, Cape Town, UK 2006
Awards
- Recipient of the Dutch Kidney Foundation Prize 1973
- Recipient of the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award 1977
- Recipient of the German "Spende eine Niere" Prize 1977
- Recipient of the Robert Koch Medaille 1977
- Recipient of the Wolf Prize 1978
- Prize of the Dutch Federation of Medical Research Societies 1980
- Recipient of the Franz-Oehlecker-Medaille of the German Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology. 1984
- Recipient of the Artois-Baillet Latour Prize for the Benefit of Health, Brussels 1985
- Recipient of the E. Jung-Prize for Medicine, Hamburg 1989
- 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 1990
- Recipient of the Rose Payne Award 1991
- Recipient of the Max Geldens Prize 1991
- Medawar Prize 1992
- Premio <Ettore Majorana> Erice Scienza per la Pace 2001
- Harf prize 2009
- Life Time achievement Award of the American Association of Bone Marrow Transplanation 2010
Honours
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Santiago de Chile, Chile 1968
- Distinguished Service Decoration of the Dutch Red Cross 1970
- Korrespondierend Mitglied Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bluttransfusion 1972
- Honorary Member of the American Association of Immunologists 1979
- Honorary Member of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology 1980
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of L'Aquila, Rome, Italy 1980
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery of the University of Torino, Italy 1980
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands 1981
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of l'Université Claud Bernard de Lyon, France 1982
- Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy for Medicine of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium 1984
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the "Katholieke Universiteit" of Louvain, Belgium 1984
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the "Université Catholique de Louvain", Louvain, Belgium 1985
- Member of the Academia Europea 1985
- Recipient of the Order of Knighthood of the Dutch Lion 1985
- Doctorate Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Essen 1988
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK 1989
- Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK 1991
- Commander of the Order of Oranje Nassau, the Netherlands 1991
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 1993
- Royal medal of the Dutch Red Cross 1997
- Honorary Editor of Human Immunology 2006
- Honorary Member of the European Society of Organ Transplantation 2007
- Start of the Jon J van Rood prize by the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group 2010
- Start of the Jon van Rood Award by the European Federation of Immunogenetics 2010