Erratum: Factors affecting successful mobilization with plerixafor: An Italian prospective survey in 215 patients with multiple myeloma and lymphoma (Transfusion (2014) 54 (331-9))

摘要

The world of immunohematology and transfusion medicine lost one of its most popular and productive scientists with the death of Dr George Garratty. I have been a friend, associate, and scientific colleague of George for 53 years and therefore feel qualified to comment on numerous aspects of his remarkable career. George's earliest professional training came in London, England, which started as a result of a summer job that happened to be at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in the laboratory of two physicians who became world leaders in their fields. Dr John Dacie (ultimately to be knighted and become Professor Sir John V. Dacie) was head of the Haematology Department and Dr Patrick M. Mollison was Director of Blood Transfusion. George^was inspired by their contributions to medicine, and this led to his decades of research in these fields. He became Chief Biomedical Scientist of the Haematology and Blood Transfusion Department at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and, in 1960, a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (FIBMS) England.