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    Thomas Earl Starzl (March 11, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, and expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human...
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  • Starzl is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Roman Frederick Starzl (1899–1976), American writer Thomas Starzl (1926–2017), American...
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    physician Thomas E. Starzl. His writing is largely forgotten now, but he was called a "master" by the pioneer of space opera E. E. Smith. Starzl's Interplanetary...
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    the University of Cambridge, and in liver transplants performed by Thomas Starzl at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The first patient, on 9 March...
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    Russell survived for eighteen days before dying of kidney failure. Thomas Starzl of Denver attempted a liver transplant in the same year, but he was...
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  • medical research in the field of organ transplantation was conducted by Thomas Starzl, establishing Pitt as the world leader in the field of organ transplantation...
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    Snyder, Charles Yanofsky 2004—Norman Borlaug, Phillip Allen Sharp, Thomas Starzl 2005—Anthony Fauci, Torsten Wiesel 2006—Rita R. Colwell, Nina Fedoroff...
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    intensive care training program at the medical center, and surgeon Thomas Starzl who perfected organ transplantation there. Other notable doctors include...
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  • transplants. Thomas Starzl had performed over 100 transplants, with a survival rate of less than 30%. Nevertheless, Billy profited from Starzl's care. Although...
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  • Sparks Richard O. Spertzel Sol Spiegelman George Starkey (alchemist) Thomas Starzl Michael Stebbins Allen Steere Charles Proteus Steinmetz Friedrich Stephan...
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    2012, he shared a Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award with Thomas Starzl. Roy Calne was born in Richmond, Surrey on 30 December 1930, to Joseph...
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  • Murray Elizabeth Ward Michael Woodruff Liver Fikri Alican James D. Hardy Thomas Starzl Lung Fikri Alican Joel D. Cooper Vladimir Demikhov James D. Hardy Pancreas...
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  • residency, followed by a two-year fellowship in transplant surgery. Thomas Starzl - first human liver transplants. Often quoted as the “father of modern...
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  • chromosomes by Theodore Puck, the first successful human liver transplant by Thomas Starzl, the first description of toxic shock syndrome by James K. Todd, the...
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    nation that performed transplants under the pioneering work of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Billy underwent the procedure and beat the thirty-percent survival...
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    CHP. In 1981 pioneering surgeon and "Father of Transplantation" Dr. Thomas E. Starzl came to the hospital, on condition that he would be free of administrative...
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    1981, a pioneering surgeon called the Father of Transplantation, Dr. Thomas E. Starzl came to the hospital, on condition that he would be free of administrative...
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    Sir John Charnley. 1963. The first liver transplant was performed by Thomas Starzl et al. 1964. The laser scalpel was invented. 1967: The first successful...
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  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Scott Pingel Forrest Smith Thomas Starzl Howard Sutherland John Van Sant, Pennsylvania State Representative and...
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    vaccine to be his single greatest achievement. Liver transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl said "...controlling the hepatitis B virus scourge ranks as one of the...
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    capacity for self-repair. Human liver transplants were first performed by Thomas Starzl in the United States and Roy Calne in Cambridge, England in 1963 and...
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    Medical Center pioneered modern organ transplant surgery (home of Dr. Thomas Starzl). In 1955, the first effective polio vaccine was developed by Dr. Jonas...
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  • (1813–1858) — anaesthetist and pioneer epidemiologist who studied cholera Thomas Starzl (1926–2017) — performed the first liver transplant Andrew Taylor Still...
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    also hired transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl. In 1984, Allegheny General surgeons pioneered modern brain surgery. Starzl arranged the 1985 liver transplant...
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    Jr. 1987 – Centennial Salute to the National Institutes of Health 1947 – Thomas Parran Jr. 1949 – Haven Emerson 1952 – Charles-Edward Amory Winslow 1956...
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    immune system.[medical citation needed] There is at least one study by Thomas E. Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh which consisted of bone marrow...
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    influential Presbyterian, son of Revolutionary War chaplain Samuel Spring Thomas Starzl, innovator in organ transplant surgery Isaac S. Struble, congressman...
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    The first person to receive the drug was a 28-year-old patient of Dr. Thomas Starzl at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The test was successful...
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    returned from surgical training under the mentorship of American surgeon Thomas Starzl, with whom he also performed some of the longest surviving early liver...
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  • acute rejection in organ transplantation. Its use was first reported by Thomas Starzl in 1966. Its use in transplant was supplanted by thymoglobulin between...
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