The bride's father, a pulmonologist, and her mother, a hematology oncologist, are professors at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where her mother is the director of its Center for Global Health and her father is its clinical director.
Dr. von Mehren, who is keeping her name, is also an associate professor of hematology and oncology at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Witteles and Liao lead the center along with Michaela Liedtke, MD, an associate professor of hematology.
Dr. Eugene Frenkel, a professor of hematology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, said: "I think there have been so few careful studies like this that it merits attention.
A steady hum of energy and activity seems to constantly surround Tamara Dunn, MD, clinical assistant professor of hematology.
Shanafelt, who is also a professor of hematology and the Jeanie and Stew Ritchie Professor, is the senior author.
Even though it is way too early to say whether embryonic cells could be used for such transplant purposes, "certainly the potential is there," said my doctor, Philip R. Greipp, professor of hematology and internal medicine at Mayo.
What keeps many patients alive, experts say, is a sense of having unfinished business - perhaps a milestone "like getting the last kid off to college," said Dr. Mellar P. Davis, a professor of hematology and medical oncology at the Cleveland Clinic.
Its inventor, Barry Coller, a professor of hematology who has since moved to Rockefeller University, shares half the licensing revenues with the university, in accordance with Stony Brook's standard contract.
