Saul Sharkis, a scientist who studied the biology of blood stem cells and how they could be used to treat cancer through bone marrow transplantation, died Sept. 4, 2016. He was 72.
Sharkis was a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center for more than 40 years.
A native of New York, Sharkis earned his B.A. from Hunter College and his master’s and doctoral degrees from New York University. After completing his postdoctoral research at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, he was recruited to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Oncology.
This is an excerpt of an article that was published in full in The Cancer Letter.
Vol. 42 No. 34 | September 16, 2016
