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Tolerance can be infectious

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Studies focused on the goal of eliciting transplant tolerance led Herman Waldmann to rejuvenate discarded ideas of 'suppressor T cells'. Such cells are now known to exist.

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I thank my many collaborators, students and colleagues who have contributed so much to this work, many of whom are mentioned here as authors of key papers. Supported by the Medical Research Council (Programme Grant).

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  1. Herman Waldmann is with the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK. herman.waldmann@path.ox.ac.uk,

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H.W. is a recipient of royalties arising from the commercialization of alemtuzumab and is cofounder and chairman of the scientific advisory board of Tolerx, which is commercializing humanized antibodies to CD4 and CD3.

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