1980 - ANZSBT History Project

Lalezari & Jiang describe manual polybrene test. Adopted into abbreviated crossmatching & screening procedures by some labs.

Voak reports monoclonal anti-A & anti-B for blood grouping.

Benacerraf, Dausset & Snell win Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for elucidation of histocompatibility antigens & their role in transplant rejection. The path is opened for HLA typing & cross matching.

Internationally assured diagnostic immunofluorescence tests for detection of platelet & granulocyte allo- & auto-antibodies adopted in Australia via publication of AIMS Fellowship thesis (Minchinton, 1980) in Australia.

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