Howard Green (September 10, 1925 – October 31, 2015) was an American scientist, and George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.
He was the first to culture human cells in a laboratory setting for therapeutic use. He is one of the founding fathers of stem-cell research and regenerative medicine. One famous case involving Doctor Green concerned Jamie and Glenn Selby, two children from Wyoming who were burned over 95% of their bodies. Green cut small patches of undamaged skin from the boys, grew them in a lab and was able to harvest skin grafts to cover their burns.
Education and personal life Howard Green was born in 1925 in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from University of Toronto medical school. He served in the United States Army. He taught at New York University School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1970 to 1980, and Harvard Medical School from 1980 to 1993.
Green married Rosine Kauffmann Green née Kauffmann in 1954.
He died on October 31, 2015, outside Boston, Massachusetts.
On November 23, 2016, Shriner's Hospitals for Children in Boston announced the opening of the Howard Green Center for Children's Skin Health and Research, funded by a $3 million gift from his wife, Mrs. Rosine Kauffmann Green.
Academic positions held Harvard Medical School
George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology
Chairman - Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology 1980-1993
Head of Green Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Cell Biology
New York University School of Medicine
Faculty member of the Department of Pathology
Awards and honors AwardYearMarch of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology2012Warren Alpert Foundation Prize2010Blaise Pascal Award in Medical and Life Sciences of the European Academy of Sciences2007Legion of Honour 2001Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research1979Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology For his fundamental contributions to the biology of cultured animal cells. 1978Member, National Academy of Sciences 1978
Publications Book
Therapy with Cultured Cells - book published 2010
Selected academic articles
DateTitle JournalMay 1, 1963The Growth of Mouse Embryo Cells In Culture and Their Development into Established Lines The Journal of Cell BiologyNovember 1975Serial Cultivation of Strains of Human Epidermal Keratinocytes: The Formation of Keratinzing Colonies from Single CellsCellNovember 1979Growth of cultured human epidermal cells into multiple epithelia suitable for grafting Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaJanuary 10, 1981Grafting of Burns with Cultured Epithelium Prepared from Autologous Epidermal CellsThe Lancet
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