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Vincent J. Freda (16 December 1927 – 7 May 2003) was an American obstetrician who shared the 1980 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for pioneering work on the rhesus blood group system, the role of rhesus D antibodies in the causation of Rh disease and the prevention of Rh disease. He graduated from Columbia University and the New York University School of Medicine.

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1. "Vaccine for preventing Rh incompatibility in newborns". Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
2. RETSINAS, GREG (18 May 2003). "Vincent Freda, 75, Dies; Pioneered Vaccine to Save Babies". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 September 2016.

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