inventions and innovations in the field of medical laboratory

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

the father of microbiology; known for his work on the improvement of the microscope

Edward Jenner

discovered vaccination to establish immunity to smallpox; impact of contribution: immunology

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

identified organs by their types of tissues; impact of contribution: histology

Agostino Bassi

produce 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, father of heredity

Joseph Lister

demonstrated the surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms

Robert Koch

presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli

Elie Metchnikoff

describe phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

Erns von Bergmann

introduce team sterilization in surgery

Karl Landsteiner

distinguish blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system

August vion Wasserman

develop immunological task for syphilis

Howard Rickett

discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae

Hans Fischer

work out the structure of hemoglobin

Jonas Salk

develop poliomyelitis vaccine

James Westgard

introduce the westgard rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

Baruch Samuel Bulmberg

introduce hepatitis b vaccine

Kary Mullis

develop the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)

Andre van Steirteghem

introduce the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ivf)

James Thomson

derived first human stem line