PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 1
LECTURE / FIRST SEMESTER
Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Laboratory
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❖ Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
- The “Father of Microbiology”
- Known for his work on the
improvement of the microscope
❖ Edward Jenner
- Discovered vaccination to
establish immunity to small pox
- Impact of contribution:
Immunology
❖ Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
- Identified organs by their types of
tissues
- Impact of contribution: Histology
❖ Agostino Bassi
- Produced disease in worms by
injection of organic material –
the beginning of bacteriology
❖ Louis Pasteur
- Successfully produced immunity
to rabies
❖ Gregor Mendel
- Enunciated his law of inherited
characteristics from studies on
plants.
❖ Joseph Lister
- Demonstrated that surgical
infections are cause by airborne
organisms
❖ Robert Koch
- Presented the first pictures of
bacilli (anthrax), and later
tubercle bacilli
❖ Elie Metchnikoff
- Described phagocytes in blood
and their role in fighting infection
❖ Ernest von Bergmann
- Introduced steam sterilization in
surgery
❖ Karl Landsteiner
- Distinguished blood groups
through the development of the
ABO blood group system
❖ August von Wassermann
- Developed immunologic tests for
syphilis
❖ Howard Ricketts
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Discovered microorganisms
whose range lies between
bacteria and viruses called
rickettsiae
Hans Fischer
- Worked out the structure of
hemoglobin
Jonas Salk
- Developed poliomyelitis vaccine
James Westgard
- Introduced the Westgard Rules
for quality control in the clinical
laboratory
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
- Introduced the Hepatitis B
vaccine
Kary Mullis
- Developed the Polymerase
Chain Reaction (PCR)
Andre van Steirteghem
- Introduced the intracytoplasmic
sperm injection (IVF)
James Thomson
- Derived the first human Stem Cell
line