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L. Stephen Coles



Leslie Stephen Coles, [1] [2] M.D., Ph.D. (born January 19, 1941) is a Visiting Scholar in the computer science department at the UCLA. [3] co-founder, and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group, [4] [5] and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, in Los Angeles, California. [6] [7] [5] [8] He is a researcher and a spokesperson on supercentenarians [9] [10] and on aging. [11]

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Biography

He is the author of numerous scientific papers, mostly on aging and supercentenarians. [12] [13] and holds one patent. [14]

He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, his Master's in mathematics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in systems and communication sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, both located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [15] After attending Stanford University Medical School, Dr. Coles completed his Clinical Internship in OB/GYN at the Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami Medical School. He then taught at UC Berkeley [16] On June 30, 1979 he married Shirley J. Ross, as his second marriage. [17]

He served as a Visiting Scientist for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Research and Development in Washington, D.C. [16], and has published with Aubrey de Grey, and Jay Olshansky. [18] He is the treasurer of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation. [19]

Partial bibliography

Journals

  • Coles LS; Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group (LA-GRG). Validated supercentenarian cases aged 114 and above. Rejuvenation Research. 2006 Winter;9(4):503-5. PMID 17105392
  • Coles LS. Validated worldwide supercentenarians for 2004. Rejuvenation Research 2005 Spring;8(1):69-71. PMID 15798378
  • Coles LS; Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group (LA-GRG). Validated supercentenarian cases aged 114 and above. Rejuvenation Research 2004 Winter;7(4):271-3. Review. PMID 15671732
  • Coles LS. Demographics of human supercentenarians and the implications for longevity medicine. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Jun; 1019:490-5. Review. PMID 15247072
  • Coles LS. Demography of human supercentenarians. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004 Jun;59(6):B579-86. PMID 15215268
  • Coles LS. Table of world-wide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003;6(4):357-60. PMID 15142437
  • Coles LS. Table of world-wide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003;6(3):275-8. PMID 14987438
  • Coles LS. Table of world-wide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003 Spring;6(1):65-8. PMID 12941183
  • Coles LS. The life and contributions of Professor Bernard L. Strehler, founding editor-in-chief of mechanisms of aging and development, professor of biology at the University of Southern California (February 21, 1925-May 13, 2001). Mech Ageing Dev. 2002 Apr 30;123(8):821-5. PMID 12044929
  • de Grey AD, Gavrilov L, Olshansky SJ, Coles LS, Cutler RG, Fossel M, Harman SM. Antiaging technology and pseudoscience. Science. 2002 Apr 26;296(5568):656. PMID 11985356

Book

The IP-6 with Inositol Question and Answer Book: Nature's Ultimate Anti-Cancer Pill by L. Stephen Coles and David Steinman (1999)

Patent

  • U.S. Patent 5,314,829 

References

  1. ^ "Leslie Stephen Coles", American Men & Women of Science, 1976-1979. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  2. ^ "Leslie Stephen Coles", Who's Who in the West, 1974-1992. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  3. ^ "Coles, Stephen L.", UCLA. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Visit Schr; Cmptr Sci" 
  4. ^ "In Connecticut, World’s Oldest Woman Dies at 114.", New York Times, January 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-16. "In the last month alone, the title of oldest person has changed hands three times, according to the Gerontology Research Group, an authority on the matter. 'The Guinness Book of World Records will not be able to keep up,' said Dr. L. Stephen Coles of the University of California, Los Angeles, the executive director of the group. 'This has been a pretty volatile time. Usually we’ve had a more stable No. 1 position.'" 
  5. ^ a b Zaslow, Jeffrey. "Gerontology sleuths search for 'supercentenarians'", Wall Street Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 28, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Her ripe old age was "a falsehood perpetrated by the tourism industry there," says GRG co-founder L. Stephen Coles, a physician and stem-cell researcher at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, where GRG is based. GRG counts just 12 undisputed cases of people ever reaching 115." 
  6. ^ "Rejuvenation Research", Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  7. ^ "Demographics of Human Supercentenarians and the Implications for Longevity Medicine", New York Academy of Sciences. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Department of Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA" 
  8. ^ "Aging: The Reality", The Gerontological Society of America. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles." 
  9. ^ "Research group tracks oldest-living people.", Daily Bruin, June 10, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "They are searching for an alternate route to immortality other than the fountain of youth. ... The group works closely with the Guinness Book of World Records and is now considered the primary source for verifying the world’s oldest person for the annual records’ book. ... Coles added that about a year ago, the Guinness Book began to recognize the group as the primary source for verifying the ages of people." 
  10. ^ "Researchers look for secrets of living to 100 and beyond.", Baltimore Sun, December 31, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "humans could eventually max out at about 125, said Dr. L. Stephen Coles, director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group, which tracks the ages of ..." 
  11. ^ "Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity?", New York Times, April 15, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Dr. L. Stephen Coles, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, recalled the excitement when he first joined the doctors and about 10 other physicians near Cancún, Mexico, in 1992 to talk about hormones and aging." 
  12. ^ L. Stephen Coles. NIH. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
  13. ^ L. Stephen Coles. University of Trier. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
  14. ^ Method for imaging informational biological molecules on a semiconductor.. United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. “Imaging biological molecules such as DNA at rates several times faster than conventional imaging techniques is carried out using a patterned silicon wafer having nano-machined grooves which hold individual molecular strands and periodically spaced unique bar codes permitting repeatably locating all images.”
  15. ^ Simon, Herbert Alexander (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial. ISBN 0262691914. 
  16. ^ a b "L. Stephen Coles", Maximum Life Foundation, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "VP for Medical Education, The Kronos Group, is a Co-Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group. He is Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery at the UCLA Medical School. Dr. Coles is the author of over 70 scientific papers and holds two patents." 
  17. ^ "L. Stephen Coles and Shirley J. Ross", California Marriage Index, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Leslie S. Coles; b. 1941; Shirley J Ross; b. 1954; married 30 Jun 1979; Santa Clara. Note in 2007, he married for the 4th time." 
  18. ^ de Grey AD, Gavrilov L, Olshansky SJ, Coles LS, Cutler RG, Fossel M, Harman SM. Antiaging technology and pseudoscience. Science. 2002 Apr 26;296(5568):656. PMID 11985356
  19. ^ Supercentenarian Research Foundation. Supercentenarian Research Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. “L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D. - Treasurer”
 
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