title: Emily Cooley lecture 2012: Emily Cooley and techniques that have been applied to characterize DO and JR blood groups.
abstract: Emily Cooley was a well-respected medical technologist and morphologist with a remarkable skill set. She was highly regarded both professionally and personally. The "Emily Cooley Lectureship and Award" was established to honor her in particular and medical technologists in general. This article first reviews the history of the Emily Cooley award and provides some of the reasons why it carries her name. Then, using two blood group systems, DO and JR, it illustrates how many discoveries regarding blood groups were dependent on access to techniques.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunochemistry, New York Blood Center, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Marion E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D001789:Blood Group Antigens
chemical_list: D001789:Blood Group Antigens