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Jewish experts in Moscow
to aid Chernobyl victims
by Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON—Two Jewish
specialists in bone marrow trans
plants—a New York-born scientist
married to a sabra and an Israeli
expert of the Weitzmann Institute
in Israel—are in Moscow at the
invitation of the Soviet govern
ment to help victims of the Cher
nobyl nuclear accident.
The specialists are Dr. Robert
Gale, chairman of the advisory
committee of the International Bone
Marrow Transplant Registry in
Milwaukee and a member of the
bone marrow transplant team at
the UCLA Medical Center in Los
Angeles, and Dr. Yuri Reisner, an
Israeli expert on T-cells, who hap
pened to be at the Memorial-Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center in New
York City when he was asked to go
to Moscow.
Dr. Mortimer Bortin, professor
of medicine at the Medical College
of Wisconsin and scientific direc
tor of the registry in Milwaukee,
said in a telephone interview with
this reporter that Gale had pro
vided names of many specialists to
Soviet authorities to aid the vic
tims and the authorities approved
the four now in Moscow.
Besides Gale and Reisner they
are Dr. Richard Champlin and Dr.
Paul Terasaki, both of the UCLA
center. Gale and his Israeli-born
wife Tamar live in Los Angeles.
Bortin, a Milwaukee native and
Jewish, said Gale flew to Moscow
first and received a Soviet visa on
arrival there. He assumed the three
others who followed also were
Gerson D. Cohen retires
NEW YORK—Chancellor Ger
son D. Cohen, under whose lead
ership the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America built its
world-renowned library and first
ordained women as Conservative
rabbis, on Sunday presided over
his final graduation at the institu
tion’s 92nd commencement exer
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The Seminary, which will cele
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Hebrew Union College and Bishop.
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Methodist Church for the Phila
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the Seminary’s administration and
curriculum were reorganized and
Gerson Cohen
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provided visas in Moscow. In a
phone call from Moscow to Bor
tin, Gale said operations were
underway for victims of the April
26 disaster. Bortin said the four
will remain in the Soviet Union for
as long as they are needed.
The Milwaukee registry includes
128 medical centers that perform
marrow transplants in 60 coun
tries. It has access to a list of more
than 50,000 potential marrow
donors, filed by blood type.
Bone marrow is described as the
body’s “blood factory.” Transplan
tation is the treatment for marrow
destruction caused by radiation
poisoning. Success of transplanta
tion depends on precise matching
of blood types between donor and
recipient.
Terasaki, director of UCLA’s
tissue-typing laboratory, is aiding
Soviet medical personnel in estab
lishing a laboratory to match
transplant patients with potential
marrow donors. Reisner is separat
ing T-cells, involved in the body’s
immune system, from donated
marrow to reduce the risk of rejec
tion. Gale and Champlin, director
of UCLA’s marrow transplant
program, are performing the
transplants. The major risk in the
operations is that the recipient's
immune system will reject the
donated marrow or that the donated
marrow will reject the recipient’s
tissues.
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