Kurt Benirschke (right) with Oliver Ryder |
The placentas came mainly from San Diego Zoo where Kurt Benirschke also took the initiative to create a biobank of cryopreserved tissues (The Frozen Zoo) and laid the foundation for what became San Diego Global's Institute for Conservation Research.
To many he is best known for his textbook Placental Pathology. The second (1990) and subsequent editions were written with Peter Kaufmann. It is now in a sixth edition edited by Kurt Benirschke, Graham Burton and Rebecca Baergen.
The Annual Kurt Benirschke Lecture at UC San Diego 2018 |
To learn about Kurt Benirschke's life in his own words see the short version here or his interview with Rebecca Baergen here.
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