Abstract
As a student at the University of Genoa Medical School (Genoa, Italy), Lucio Luzzatto learned how to read bone marrow slides from Alberto Marmont, Italy's pioneer of bone marrow transplantation. Soon after he graduated in 1959, Luzzatto could see that haematology was “already at the forefront of what became known as molecular medicine”. The Genoa native found haematology very exciting in that “by combining clinical examination of the patient, and by looking at the patient's blood cells under the microscope, one could often immediately make a diagnosis”. He pursued a clinical research haematology fellowship under Paul Marks at Columbia University (New York, NY, USA), where he also learnt directly from Vernon Ingram how he had pinpointed the structural abnormality of sickle haemoglobin.
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