Dr. Don Thomas passed away Saturday, Oct. 20; Nobel laureate established transplantation as a lifesaving treatment for blood cancers and helped bring the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to global prominence
The Friends of José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation endowed the chair in honor of its former owner Dr. E. Donnall Thomas and Carreras, an internationally known tenor and cancer survivor
'Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation,' authored by Hutchinson Center faculty member and Nobel laureate E. Donnall Thomas, is the world's leading textbook on the topic