E. Donnall Thomas

Edward Donnall Thomas was an American physician, born in Mart, Texas, who became professor emeritus at the University of Washington and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He studied chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and took his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1946. With his wife and research partner Dorothy Thomas he developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia, and in 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray. The article also records a later leukemia trial at the Hutchinson Center that was criticised over undisclosed conflicts of interest.