Leonard Hayflick was born on 20 May 1928 and is a Professor of Anatomy at the UCSF School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
40 Facts About Leonard Hayflick
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Leonard Hayflick is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America and was a founding member of the council of the National Institute on Aging.
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Leonard Hayflick is known for discovering that normal human cells divide for a limited number of times in vitro.
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Leonard Hayflick's discoveries overturned a 60-year old dogma that all cultured cells are immortal.
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Leonard Hayflick demonstrated that his normal human cell strains were free from contaminating viruses.
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Leonard Hayflick discovered that the etiological agent of primary atypical pneumonia was not a virus as previously believed.
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Leonard Hayflick was the first to cultivate the causative organism called a mycoplasma, the smallest free-living organism, which Hayflick isolated on a unique culture medium that bears his name.
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In 1959, Leonard Hayflick developed the first inverted microscope for use in cell culture research.
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Leonard Hayflick's microscope was accessioned by the Smithsonian Institution in 2009.
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Leonard Hayflick developed the first practical method for producing powdered cell culture media in 1965.
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The technique is not patented and Leonard Hayflick receives no remuneration from this invention.
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Leonard Hayflick is the author of the book, How and Why We Age, published in August 1994 by Ballantine Books, NYC and available since 1996 as a paperback.
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Leonard Hayflick has written numerous articles criticizing both the feasibility and desirability of human life extension, which have provoked responses critical of his views.
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Leonard Hayflick was born 20 May 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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In 1968, Leonard Hayflick was appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
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Leonard Hayflick sued the NIH, who later agreed that the issue was in dispute.
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In 1988, Leonard Hayflick joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, where he is currently Professor of Anatomy.
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Leonard Hayflick is a member of numerous national and international scientific and public boards of directors and committees.
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Leonard Hayflick is, or has been, on the Editorial Boards of more than ten professional journals.
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Leonard Hayflick is a member of twenty scientific and professional societies in which he has held several high offices including President of the Gerontological Society of America from 1982 to 1983.
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Leonard Hayflick was a founding member of the Council of the National Institute on Aging, NIH, and chairman of its executive committee.
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Leonard Hayflick was a consultant to the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization, and is a member of several scientific advisory boards.
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Leonard Hayflick was Chairman of the Scientific Review Board of the American Federation for Aging Research where he was a vice president and a Member of the board of directors.
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Leonard Hayflick was a consultant at Genentech from a year after its founding and for the next 25 years.
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Leonard Hayflick developed their technology for growing animal cells in fermentation tanks in which most of their products were produced.
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Leonard Hayflick is one of several prominent biologists featured in the 1995 science documentary Death by Design: The Life and Times of Life and Times.
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Leonard Hayflick is known for his research in cell biology, virus vaccine development, and mycoplasmology.
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Leonard Hayflick found that only cancer cells are immortal and that normal cells have a mechanism for remembering what replication level they are at.
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Leonard Hayflick interpreted his finding that normal cells are mortal, to be an indication of aging at the cellular level.
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Leonard Hayflick demonstrated for the first time that mortal and immortal mammalian cells existed.
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Leonard Hayflick developed the first normal human diploid cell strains for studies on human aging and for research use throughout the world.
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Leonard Hayflick had found that his normal cell strain WI-38 was capable of growing all of the then known human viruses.
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Leonard Hayflick hypothesized that because WI-38 was free from contaminating viruses, it could replace the then widely used primary monkey kidney cells, which contained several dangerous contaminating viruses.
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Leonard Hayflick produced the first oral polio vaccine ever made on his normal human cell strain WI-38.
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Leonard Hayflick is known for his discovery of the cause of primary atypical pneumonia in humans.
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The etiological agent was first thought to be a virus, but Leonard Hayflick showed that it was, in fact, a mycoplasma, a member of the smallest free-living class of microorganisms.
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In 1997, Leonard Hayflick was elected Academician and Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Leonard Hayflick is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Honorary Member of the Tissue Culture Association and, according to the Institute of Scientific Information, is one of the most cited contemporary scientists in the world in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, enzymology, genetics and molecular biology.
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Leonard Hayflick is the author of over 275 scientific papers, book chapters and edited books of which four papers are among the 100 most cited scientific papers of the two million papers published in the basic biomedical sciences from 1961 to 1978.
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The inverted microscope that Leonard Hayflick modified for use in his tissue culture and mycoplasma work and on which all other such microscopes have been modeled has been acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.