Meditations of a Scientist
About this book
This book is an autobiography describing the life and career of Howard Green. Dr. Green was born and spent his early years in Canada. In 1947, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Shortly after, he moved to the United States, where he has lived ever since. He has been a professor at New York University School of Medicine (1965-1970), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970-1980) and from 1980 to the present time at Harvard Medical School, where he is a member of the Department of Cell Biology. While at MIT and Harvard Medical School, he developed the first therapeutic use of cultured cells - the use of keratinocytes for the regeneration of epidermis on severely burned patients. The first large-scale, life-saving use of this procedure was demonstrated with cells grown in his laboratory. In recent years, his research has been on the properties of human embryonic stem cells and their derivatives. Dr. Green is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates in the United States and abroad, including the prestigious French Legion of Honour. Most recently he received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize and the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.