Obituary-Kendrick Arthur Porter

摘要

An essential ingredient of any well-found programme of research into organ transplantation is access to high quality histopathology. So there can be no greater endorsement of the value of Kendrick Porter's work than the course of action followed for three decades by one of America's foremost transplantation pioneers. Although separated from Porter by several thousand miles, Thomas Starzl, then of the University of Colorado and now Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, invited him to undertake most of the microscopic and other pathological examinations of the key experimental and clinical material generated by his groundbreaking transplant programmes.