INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN THE FIELD OF MLS

• Father of Microbiology; known for his work and improvement of the microscope 


  Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek ; 1660
• Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; Impact of contribution; Immunology

  Edward Jenner ; 1796
• Identified organs by their types of tissues; impact of contribution Histology 


  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat ; 1880
• Produced disease in Worms by injection of organic Material- the beginning of bacteriology

  Agostino Bassi ; 1835
• Successfully produced immunity to rabies 


  Louis Pasteur ;1857
• He enunciated his law and inherited characteristics from studies on plants

  Gregor Mendel . 1866
• Demonstrated that surgical infections are cause by airborne organisms

  Joseph Lister - 1870
• Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli


  Robert Koch 1877
• Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

  Elie Metchnikoff - 1886
• Introduced steam sterilization in surgery 


  Ernst on Bergmann - 1886
• Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system


  Karl Lansteiner / 1902
• Developed immunologic tests for syphilis 


  August Von Wassermann 1906
• Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae 


  Howard Ricketts - 1906
• Worked out the structure of Hemoglobin

  Hans Fischer - 1929
• Developed poliomyelitis vaccine 


  Jonas Salk - 1954
• Introduced the west guard rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

  James westgard - 1973
• Introduced the Hepatitis B vaccine


  Baruch Samuel Blumberg
• Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) 


  Kary Mullis - 1985
• Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)


  Andre Van Steirteghem - 1992
• Derived the first human stem cell line

  James Thomson - 1998