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Three Harvard professors are among the 90 recipients of this year's Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, which are awarded to young faculty members who show promise in their fields...
...David, a marrow transplant was initially out of the question: no one in his family matched his cell type. But in the past few years, researchers at Harvard and New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have developed ways of chemically treating bone marrow so that transplants can be made even when the grafted marrow is imperfectly matched. These new methods made it possible for David to receive a marrow graft from his 15-year-old sister, Katherine...
...major peril in transplanting mismatched bone marrow has always been a rejection problem called graft-vs.-host disease. Even with treated marrow, there is some risk. According to Dr. Richard O'Reilly of Sloan Kettering, the disease is "the exact opposite of what we talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
HOSPITALIZED. Frank Church, 59, four-term Democratic Senator (1957-80) from Idaho who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and ran for the presidential nomination in 1976; for a biopsy of a tumor in his pancreas and clearance of a bile duct; at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Church overcame testicular cancer while at Stanford Law School in the 1940s...
That would give him the longest tenure as GM boss since the legendary Alfred Sloan. - By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit