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visit to Israel. The
Technion granted the
degree in recognition
of Dr. Shalala's far-
reaching academic
contributions in the
domain of public pol-
icy as applied to the
governance of cities,
and for advancing so-
lutions to major prob-
lems afflicting large
cities in the U.S., uni-
versity officials said.
Dr. Shalala is the
first woman of Arab
descent to receive
such an honor from
the prestigious Tech-
nion. Referring to her
Donna Shalala receives award from Technion Senior
family's Lebanese
Vice President Paul Singer and Professor Abraham
roots, Dr. Shalala told
Rosen, dean of the graduate school.
the assembly of Israeli
n Thanksgiving day, U.S. academic and business leaders
Secretary of Health and that as the first woman to receive
Human Services Dr. Don- such a distinction, "...I am espe-
na Shalala received an cially honored to join with you in
honorary doctoral degree from breaking down one more barrier
the Technion - Israel Institute of and opening up one more chan-
Technology, during a ceremony nel of peace in this rapidly chang-
at the beginning of her week-long ing region."

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New Method Improves
Marrow Transplants

esearchers from the Weiz-
mann Institute in Israel
and Perugia University in
Italy have developed a
method that may significantly
improve the chances for people
with leukemia to receive poten-
tially life-saving bone marrow
transplants from unmatched
donors.
Normally, successful bone
marrow transplantation (BMT)
requires that certain character-
istics of the donor and recipient
immune systems be closely
matched in order to avoid rejec-
tion and other complications.
However, fewer than 30 percent
of leukemia patients who might
benefit from BMT have a
matched donor among their sib-
lings and only 3 - 5 percent man-
age to find such a person among
other relatives. Although the es-
tablishment of large BMT reg-
istries has led to an increase in
transplants between unrelated
individuals in the past few years,
many patients still fail to find ap-
propriate donors.
It is hoped that by eliminating
the need for a very close donor-
recipient match, the new ap-
proach will now make BMT
available to all people with

leukemia in need of the treat-
ment. However, even if further
studies support the effectiveness
of the approach, it will take some
time before it becomes widely
available.
The technique was developed
over the past eight years by Pro-
fessor Yair Reisner of the Weiz-
mann Institute's department of
membrane research and bio-
physics and Professor Massimo
Martelli of the University of Pe-
rugia's Policlinico Monteluce in
Perugia, Italy.
A report on the first 17
leukemia patients treated with
the approach in Professor
Martelli's clinic appears in this
month's issue of Blood. The
donor marrow — drawn from
family members who were not
entirely compatible with the re-
cipients — successfully implant-
ed itself in 16 of the 17 patients.
Although all the patients treat-
ed had been in terminal stages
of leukemia, six were alive and
free of disease three to 16 months
after treatment.
BMT is generally undertaken
in patients who are otherwise
doomed because its severe com-
plications can themselves be
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