1950s
1955 – Dr. E. Donnall Thomas began researching the possibility of using bone marrow transplantation to cure humans with life-threatening diseases in the U.S.
Leading scientists agree that exciting stem cell therapeutics are on the horizon, and this didn’t happen overnight. Stem cell research began more than 50 years ago – 1955 to be exact. It all started with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, an American physician, who was the first to research the possibility of using bone marrow transplantation to treat life-threatening diseases.
1959 – Experiments in mice proved the existence of blood stem cells in bone marrow.