A former UW-Madison researcher and physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants ? now conducted on tens of thousands people each year ? died Sunday at his home near Boston. He was 77.
Dr. Fritz Bach was 31 years old and an assistant professor at UW-Madison in 1965 when he began developing techniques to help people survive organ transplants. The test he developed allowed doctors to find the family member who would be the closest match in an organ transplant, in order to avoid transplant rejection.