Emerich Ullmann

Emerich Ullmann (February 23, 1861 - 1937) was an Austrian surgeon who was a native of Pécs. In 1884 he received his doctorate in Vienna, and afterwards worked in the surgical department of Theodor Billroth (1829-1894). He briefly was an assistant to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) in Paris, where he was involved with research of antisera against rabies. In 1885 he returned to the University of Vienna at the First Department of Surgery.

Ullmann was a pioneer concerning renal transplantation. In 1902 he performed the first successful renal autotransplantation in a dog. Reportedly, the kidney remained functional for five days. Soon afterwards, he was unsuccessful in trying the first renal xenotransplantation (cross-species transplant) between a goat and a dog. Following an unsuccessful attempt to transplant a pig's kidney into a human patient who was in the final stage of renal disease, he stopped research of kidney transplantation. Ullmann also conducted research involving tissue and other organ transplants.
* Associated eponyms:
* "Ullmann's line": The line of displacement in spondylolisthesis.
* "Ullmann's syndrome": A systemic angiomatosis due to multiple arteriovenous malformations.

References

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15365973&dopt=AbstractPlus National Library of Medicine, Emerich Ullmann and Organ Transplantation]