SCIENTIST AWARDED FOR TRANSPLANT THERAPY
Scientist Huang Xiaojun received the annual Distinguished Service Award from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research on February 23. The award was given in recognition of his groundbreaking development of the Beijing Protocol, a method for conducting stem-cell transplants. The center is a research collaboration between the Medical College of Wisconsin and the U.S. National Marrow Donor Program.
A member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the Institute of Hematology at Peking University, Huang established a series of key techniques for bone marrow transplantation that gradually developed into the Beijing Protocol. The protocol has increased the three-year survival rate of leukemia patients receiving transplants from approximately 20
