The future of transplant surgery began to look very bleak. Meanwhile, Peter Medawar in Great Britain had been researching the topic of rejection, which he had observed in skin grafts as a wartime ...

Peter Medawar, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at UCL, examines how humans might continue to evolve in his Reith lecture series The Future of Man.

1940s Peter Medawar performs breakthrough research on suppressing the immune system to reduce rejection by the body. Develops a steroid, cortisone, for this purpose. 1967 The first heart ...