096 Keynote presentation: 50 years of the Society for Cryobiology

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• 作者：Arthur Rowe
• 刊名：Cryobiology
• 出版年：December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：67
• 期：3
• 页码：425
• 全文大小：39 K

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During the past 50 years, the Society for Cryobiology with its journal Cryobiology, has been the primary leader in the field thanks to the many pioneers and their scientific colleagues and progeny who have contributed and disseminated research in low temperature biology and medicine. In 1940, B.J. Luyet published the treatise 鈥淟ife and Death at Low Temperature鈥?and is credited with being the Father of Cryobiology. The accidental discovery by Polge, Smith and Parkes, in 1949, of glycerol as an effective cryoprotectant for spermatozoa and later red blood cells stimulated great interest in freeze preservation. Research on freezing cells and other biological materials was rapidly initiated by many research laboratories in academia and industry in the early 1950s and 1960s. This increase in low temperature research became international and soon required venues for disseminating new findings. In the United States, the first organized assemblies of interested scientists were held at the large multi-disciplinary FASEB meetings in Atlantic City, New Jersey each year. One of the first large meetings devoted entirely to cryobiology took place in Buffalo in the early 1960鈥檚 and it soon became obvious to a group of attendees that there was sufficient interest to form a society. In 1964, the Society for Cryobiology was founded, with B. J. Luyet selected as its first President. Simultaneously, the Society initiated the publishing of Cryobiology, the International Journal of Low Temperature Biology and Medicine with T.I. Malinin as its first Editor-in-Chief. Interest and research in cryobiology expanded rapidly with many institutions being established in the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Japan among others. Many smaller societies devoted to cryobiology, cryomedicine, cryosurgery, and cryogenic technology were spawned. In recent years, the Society has recognized those outstanding scientists who have had a scientific impact and contributed significantly to the science of cryobiology, generated outstanding scientific offspring, and contributed service to the Society, by establishing the category and distinguished honor of FELLOW of the Society for Cryobiology. This presentation will highlight those who were the early outstanding scientists instrumental in establishing the scientific foundation of a society devoted to cryobiology, and which is now celebrating 50 years of progress.

Source of funding: None declared.

Conflict of interest: None declared.