Leland Clark Facts
Leland Clark Facts
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| Leland Clark was born in Rochester, New York. |
| He was one of the few students to score 100 on the New York Regents science Exam. |
| In 1941 he earned a B.S. in chemistry from Antioch College in Ohio and in 1944, received a PhD in Biochemistry and Physiology from the University of Rochester. |
| He was an Assistant Professor biochemistry at Antioch College. |
| From 1955 to 1958 he was also a Senior Research Associate in Pediatrics and Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. |
| In 1958 he joined the faculty of the University of Alabama Medical College as an associate professor of biochemistry. |
| From 1968 to his retirement in 1991 he was professor of research pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation. |
| He was the inventor of Oxycyte which is a perfluorocarbon therapeutic oxygen carrier designed to increase oxygen perfusion of damaged tissues. |
| Oxycyte can carry five times more oxygen than hemoglobin but it is not a complete blood substitute and it is still in clinical trials. |
| Clark invented the first device that rapidly reads blood glucose levels which is critical to the management of diabetes and he holds a patent for an implantable blood glucose biosensor. |
| In 1954 he invented the Clark Oxygen Electrode measures dissolved oxygen and which has biomedical, industrial and environmental applications. |
| Real time blood oxygen monitoring has revolutionized the field of surgery and made the outcomes much safer for patients. |
| In 1962 he received the National Institutes of Health Research Career Award and was a recipient of the Horace Mann award for Service to Humanity in 1984. |
| In 1991 he was awarded the American Heart Association Samuel Kaplan visionary Award and was also enshrined in the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame. |
| In 2005 he was awarded the Fritz J. and Dolores H Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering which recognizes bioengineering advances that improve the human condition. |
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