Jon van Rood

Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926, Scheveningen – 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist.

In 1977 van Rood was awarded the Robert Koch Prize.

[2] In 1978, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with George D. Snell and Jean Dausset, "for his contribution to the understanding of the complexity of the HLA system in man and its implications in transplantation and in disease.

"[3] Van Rood was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

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