PLMS 1 : Inventions and innovations in the Field of Medtech

1660: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

The father of Microbiology

Known for his work on the improvement of the microscope.

1796: Edward Jenner

Discoverd Vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; immunology

1880: Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Identified organs by their types of tissues; Histology

1835: Agostino Bassi

Produced desease in worms by injection of organic material; bacteriology

1857: Louis Pasteur

Succesfully produced rabies vaccine

1866: Gregor Mendel

His law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants

1870: Joseph Lister

Demonstred surgical infections are cause by airborne organisms

1877: Robert Koch

Presented first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli

1886: Elie Metchnikoff

Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

1886: Ernst Von Bergmann

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery

1902: Karl Landsteiner

Distinguished blood groups though the development of the ABO blood group system

1906: August Von Wassermann

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

1906: Howard Ricketts

Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae

1929: Hans Fischer

Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

1954: Jonas Salk

Developed poliomyelitis vaccine

1973: James Westgard

Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

1980: Baruch Samuel Blumberg

Introduced the Hepatitis B Vaccine

1985: Kary Mullis

Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

1992: Andre Van Steirteghem

Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), type of IVF

1998: James Thomson

Derived the first human stem cell line