Broxmeyer elevated to rank of Distinguished Professor

On Saturday, February 28, 2004, Indiana University celebrated Founders Day to commemorate the university's 184th birthday and to honor its founders, it historical legacy and exemplary faculty from its statewide campuses.

Hal Broxmeyer, professor of medicine, scientific director of Walther Oncology Center and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at IUSM along with three other professors were elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor.

In 1989, the first cord blood transplant was performed on a five-year-old with Fanconi anemia. Hal Broxmeyer was not only there, he helped make it -and more than 2,000 transplants since then- possible.

In a move that his colleagues repeatedly claim is both a distinctive contribution to his field and a distinguishing characteristic of his career, Brxmeyer applied his scientific method to clinical practice and offered his lab as the first cord blood bank in the world.

"His work on umbilical cord blood as a source of progenitor cells can be said to be classic and pioneering," said Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland and co-discoverer of the AIDS virus. "Its importance is self-evident."

Hal Broxmeyer named distinguished professor at IUSM (click here for more details)

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