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From Histocompatibility to Cancer

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Realm of Tolerance

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As for most of my colleagues, the way to biology began for me at the outset of my university studies. At the Medical School in Kosice, I became a helper and collaborator on a project at the Department of Biology on the influence of radiation on immunological tolerance. These studies were inspired by and carried out in collaboration with Milan Hašek’s group in Prague. I knew this fact, but I did not pay much attention to it, though it was bound to influence my career and life profoundly in the future. At the end of my studies (which I carried out, after the first 2 years in Kosice, at the Faculty of Pediatrics of the Charles University in Prague) a possibility had arisen to work on my PhD thesis in Milan Hašek’s department at the Academy of Sciences, and I became a member of Pavol Ivanyi’s group. At that time Pavol was involved in his original line of research — immunogenetics in rabbits — and had also started work on human histocompatibility antigens. Those were the years of pioneering work and a team spirit when we strove to create an important center of human immunogenetic research in Prague.

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  1. Central Laboratory of the Netherlands Red Cross, Blood Transfusion Service and Laboratory for Experimental and Clinical Immunology, Plesmanlaan 125, Amsterdam, NL-1066 CX, The Netherlands

    Pavol Ivanyi MD PhD

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Demant, P. (1989). From Histocompatibility to Cancer. In: Ivanyi, P. (eds) Realm of Tolerance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74712-0_10

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