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Ann Kiessling (Ann Anderson) was born on 29 March, 1942 in Baker City, Oregon, U.S., is an American reproductive biologist involved in stem cell research. Discover Ann Kiessling's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Ann Kiessling ( Anderson; born March 29, 1942) is an American reproductive biologist and a researcher in human parthenogenic stem cell research at The Bedford Research Foundation.
She graduated from Klamath Falls High School in 1960 and attended University of Virginia where she received the first of her two bachelor's degrees, in nursing.
In 1966 she received her second bachelor's degree, in chemistry, from Central Washington University where she also received her master's degree in organic chemistry in 1967.
In 1971 she earned her Ph.D. from Oregon State University in biochemistry and biophysics.
She did postdoctoral research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and University of California, San Diego.
Kiessling is mother of three daughters and a son.
Kiessling is noted for her discovery of reverse transcriptase activity in normal human cells.
This report pioneered the importance of naturally occurring retrovirus sequences in human genes, now thought to be important to the genetic plasticity involved in human evolution and biology.
Prior to this discovery, it had been assumed that reverse transcriptase was an enzyme found only in retroviruses (such as human immunodeficiency virus).
To understand the normal biologic role of reverse transcriptase, Kiessling began to study eggs and early cleaving embryos.
Her dual interests in virology and reproductive biology led to research in semen transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, and the creation of the first laboratory for human in vitro fertilization in Oregon in the early 1980s.
She was an associate professor in teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Faulkner Hospital, New England Deaconess, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) from 1985 until 2012.
Kiessling was born Ann Anderson in Baker City, Oregon.
Harvard Medical School recruited Kiessling in 1985, where she conducted research until 2011.
Kiessling conducts research at the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation.
The need to conduct biomedical research in areas not funded by the federal government led to the incorporation of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation.
The techniques developed for the Special Program of Assisted Reproduction have been extended to other diseases of the male genitourinary tract, such as prostatitis and bladder infections.
Expertise in human egg biology led Kiessling to develop the country's first human egg donor program for stem cell research in 2000.
It remains a research focus today.
Kiessling's team was the first to establish the importance to circadian rhythms to early egg development.
Among the publications by Kiessling is the first comprehensive look at the influence of accurate science terminology on laws titled, "What is an Embryo," published by the Connecticut Law Review along with rejoinders by Harold Shapiro, Prof John A. Robertson, Prof. Lars Noah, and Father Kevin P. Quinn.
The law review addresses the controversy of all of the entities that are currently called embryos with regards to embryonic stem cell research legislation around the world.
In 2003, Kiessling wrote Human Embryonic Stem Cells: An Introduction to the Science and Therapeutic Potential, the first textbook on the controversial topic.
Kiessling is a member of the California (California Constitution Article XXXV) and Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Boards, and a member of the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committees for Harvard University, Joslin Diabetes Center and Children's Hospital.
Kiessling has been cited in articles in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and NPR among others.
In March 2020, Kiessling expanded her laboratory operations at the Bedford Research Foundation to include SARS2 (COVID-19) testing.
On April 17, 2020, Kiessling reported that one of her daughters, a front-line worker at a local hospital, had tested positive for Coronavirus.
Kiessling's frustration over the continued lack of available testing led her to expand the Foundation's SARS2 testing efforts to offer public testing.