Seminars in Hematology
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Pages 42-52 , January 2006

The Lung as a Target Organ of Graft-Versus-Host Disease

  • Gregory Yanik
    • ,
  • Kenneth R. Cooke

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Kenneth R. Cooke, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics–Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, 6306 CCGC, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0942

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 K.R.C. is an Amy Strelzer-Manasevit Scholar of the National Marrow Donor Program, a Fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Minority Faculty Development Program, a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar in Clinical Research and the recipient of a Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

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doi: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2005.09.004

Seminars in Hematology
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Pages 42-52 , January 2006

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