In 1977 van Rood was awarded the
Robert Koch Prize. In 1978, he was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with
George D. Snell and
Jean Dausset, "for his contribution to the understanding of the complexity of the
HLA system in man and its implications in transplantation and in disease." Van Rood was elected a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978. In 1989 he was awarded the
Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine. ==Death==