E. Starzl - Graft & Host, Together Forever

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Graft and Host, Together Forever

E. Starzl pioneered organ transplantation with antirejection drugs--an approach he hopes to end through a

phenomenon called microchimerism.

The 80-year-old Starzl, a

transplant surgeon and researcher at the University

of Pittsburgh, where he has an

institute named after him, is legendary for his groundbreaking work over the

past five decades. He was the first person to perform

human liver transplants. He developed new techniques

for transplant surgery, helped to make…………….

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