The first successful organ transplant, performed in 1954 by Joseph Murray, involved identical twins, and so no rejection was observed.
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She blogged about her life, family and experiences, including undergoing a lung transplant and her subsequent transplant rejection, in her blog "65 Redroses," which is also the name of a documentary film about her, 65 Redroses.
Julia Bodmer, nee Pilkington, Manchester High School pupil: 1945 - 1953, discovered the details of the Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) with genetic differences causing transplant rejection, and was married to Sir Walter Bodmer, who was the first Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, Chancellor of the University of Salford from 1995 to 2005 and Principal from 1996 to 2005 of Hertford College, Oxford
Many scientists conducting research in the fields of immunology (including auto-immune disorders), infectious disease, hematological malignancies, vaccine development, Transplant Immunology, and high-throughput screening are frequent users of PBMCs.