Acceptance of the 1997 Jean Hamburger Award

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor award.

Thank you, John, for your very gracious introductory remarks. I'm rather surprised by what you've been able to extract from sources I once thought to be loyal. Dr. Podos, officers and members of the Association, ladies and gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful to the Trustees of ARVO for having invited me to deliver the Proctor Lecture. It is a great privilege to honor the memory of Dr. Francis P...

CHIRON AWARD The basis of allograft acceptance

When Billingham, Brent, and Medawar (2, 3) showed that neonatal tolerance could he induced hy engrafting haematolymphopoietic donor cells into immunologically immature mice, the door to transplantation was pushed ajar. Simulation of the mouse defenceless state with recipient cytoablation (4) ultimately allowed clinical BM transplantation (5-8) which was long viewed as a replacement of the immun...

Van Wyk Award acceptance speech.

The Van Wyk Prize is the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LPWES)’s most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding career achievement by a member in the field of pediatric endocrinology. This award, established in honor of Judson J. Van Wyk, M.D., stands in tribute to an outstanding leader who has displayed a career of scientific excellence, leadership and dedication to the heal...

Remarks Made on Acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award.

.0 say that I deeply appreciate the honor you have bestowed upon me would be a very true but also very incomplete statement of my feelings. Even though you have given me ten months to grow into the position of the recipient of the Proctor award, I still have serious misgivings about my qualifications. I am being haunted by a quotation from an early English comedy by George Chapman, which goes a...

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award, June, 1957.