The Hutchinson Center threw a party on Sept. 12, 2007, to honor Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, his wife and longtime research partner Dottie, and the pioneering work that earned Thomas the 1990 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Exactly fifty years earlier, the New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark research paper by Thomas and three colleagues that would launch a new era of clinical study on bone-marrow transplantation to treat cancer.

In his introduction at the celebration, Dr. Fred Appelbaum, senior vice president and director of the Clinical Research Division, said Thomas's "seminal experiment marked the beginning of a long road that led to the current practice of hematopoietic-cell transplantation, which this year will be used to treat more than 50,000 people worldwide."

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