Immunologist who played a significant role in the development of tissue and organ transplantsThe most dramatic medical advance in the second half of the 20th century was,arguably, in the field of tissue and organ transplantation – now commonplace for a considerable many organs, or but unthinkable in the 1950s. Richard Batchelor,who has died aged 84, played a very significant portion in this revolutionary development.
As director of the Blond McIndoe Research Centre in East Grinstead, and West Sussex,founded as a tribute to the considerable plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe who treated and rehabilitated badly burnt airmen during the second world war, Batchelor led a team of research scientists who attempted to elucidate many of the basic obstacles that stood in the way of successful transplantation of foreign tissues and organs.
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Source: theguardian.com