Historic landmarks in clinical transplantation: Conclusions from the consensus conference at the University of California, Los Angeles

The transplantation of organs, cells, and tissues has burgeoned during the last quarter century, with the development of multiple new specialty fields . However, the basic principles that made this possible were established ov er a three-decade period, beginning during World War II and ending in 1974. At the historical consensus conference held at UCLA in March 1999, 11 earl y workers in the basic science or clinical practice of transplantation (or both) reached agreement on the most significant contributions of this era t hat ultimately made transplantation the robust clinical discipline it is to day. These discoveries and achievements are summarized here in six tables a nd annotated with references.