Geoffrey Frank Grant

Infobox Scientist
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name = Geoffrey Frank Grant

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caption = Geoffrey Grant, 2002
birth_date = Birth date|df=yes|1941|09|05
birth_place = Empingham, Rutland, United Kingdom
residence = Fort Worth, Texas, USA
citizenship = United Kingdom (1941-)
Canada (1953-)
United States (1991–)
fields = Scientist Inventor Sportsman
alma_mater = University of California San Diego
University of British Columbia
doctoral_advisor = Melvin Simon CalTech
academic_advisors = Melvin Cohn. Salk Institute
known_for = No-line, multicolored tennis court 1975
electronic line judge tennis 1974
Co-discoverer - the isolation, mode of action and sequence of the brain hypothalamic peptide Somatostatin. 1972.
ITF World Senior Tennis Doubles Champion. 2002
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Early Years

Born Sept 5, 1941 on ‘Cross Roads’ farm, overlooking the Gwash Valley -now the largest flooded reservoir, Rutland Water, in the UK, near the village of Empingham, county of Rutland, England, UK. In June 1953 the family emigrated from the UK to Lacombe, Alberta, Canada where his sister still resides. He grew up and went to high school in the aluminum smelting community of Kitimat, British Columbia in Northern Canada and attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver B.C. as an agriculture student. He moved to San Diego, California for his graduate education, as a Regent’s Fellow at University of California San Diego (UCSD), where he was awarded his Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1969.

cience Career

As a post-doctoral fellow, he continued research at nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies becoming an assistant research professor in the neuro-endocrinology laboratory of Roger Guillemin, a 1977 Nobel Laureate. At the Salk, he conducted studies and published with the Nobel Laureate [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/Vale-Guillemin-Grant.html] on the cell biology and mode of action / structure-activity relationships of hypothalamic hormone analogs and was a co-discoverer of the hypothalamic peptide, Somatostatin ” Vale W, Brazeau P, Grant G, Nussey A, Burgus R, Rivier J, Ling N, Guillemin R.. PMID: 4347575 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4347575?dopt=Abstract Preliminary observations on the mechanism of action of somatostatin, a hypothalamic factor inhibiting the secretion of growth hormone. In French.] “] [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/somatostatin.pdf | pdf file ] He has articles published in both " Nature" [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4556378?dopt=Abstract] and "Science" [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4555980?dopt=Abstract] His present interests are as a naturopathic [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theorist | theorist] extending the theory he published –“The DOLE - Decline of Life's Energy - Theory of Aging.” 2000. [ [Restoration of anabolic and regulatory processes Grant, G.F. and Tyler Parr. Expert Opinion of Therapeutic Patents. (2000) 10(12): p1885-1898] ] [ [ Revitalization of Aged Mitochondria and Energy Metabolism. Grant, G.F. and Tyler Parr. Expert Opinion of Therapeutic Patents. (2000) 10(8): p1233-1243] ] Specifically, the root molecular causes of Aging.

Tennis Innvovator

While a researcher at the Salk Institute he developed an invention related to his athletic passion of tennis with the aim to revolutionize the sport by removing subjective officiating judgments. He designed, developed, and built a computerized, electronic line judge computer ( USPTO patent [http://www.google.com/patents?id=k3N8AAAAEBAJ&dq=3,982,759 | #3,982,759] . During 1974 and 1975 his device was used in the first successful public demonstration of a computerized line-calling device at a professional tennis tournament. This original tennis electronic line judge device was used by the Men’s World Championship Tennis and the Ladies’ Virginia Slims sponsored tennis tours. The computerized device not only made decisions as to whether the ball landed within the boundaries of the playing zones but also made [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foot_fault |foot fault] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serve_(tennis)#A_legal_serve | service net-cord] decisions. “ [Electronic Design Magazine 9 April 26, 1976, p55-57. “An electronic linesman decides where the tennis ball bounces.” By John F. Mason ] “] [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/EDM.pdf | EDM pdf file] [Tennis Magazine January 1975, p20-22. “Is the tennis lineman obsolete?” by Ken Bentley] ”] [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/TM.pdf | TM pdf file] [ [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/ElectrolineArticles.html] ]

During the early years [1975-6] , of the World TeamTennis (WWT) league it adopted Dr. Grant’s creative alternative tennis court design as a ‘signature logo’. The WTT no-line, multi-colored tennis court, has a distinctive, attractive appearance that projected a unique appeal to the spectators, tennis promoters, television producers and TV audiences. The original multi-colored, no-line tennis court has eleven separate colored areas with no segregating lines. A USPTO utility patent [http://www.google.com/patents?id=d34zAAAAEBAJ&dq=4,045,022 | # 4,045,022] was issued in 1977. ” [Sports Illustrated May 12, 1975 p68. “Patching a tattered image.” By Joe Jares] ”] [http://www.geoffreygrant.com/SI.pdf | SI pdf file]

Dr. Grant has also invented procedures and devices to monitor tennis court speed/pace and designed and molded custom handles for tennis rackets to assist senior players with Dupuytren's contracture .

Tennis Competitor

Geoffrey Grant is an avid and successful senior tennis competitor who participates in senior US National and International tennis events. His success record includes membership on USTA 2002 & 2003 senior teams competing in the ITF World championships.

He, with partner Allan Carter, became World Senior Doubles Champions, winning a Gold medal, at the International Tennis Federation 2002 World Championships in Velden, Austria.

His USTA senior team won bronze medals at the 2003 ITF World team championships at Club Ali Bey-Manavgat, near Antalya, Turkey.

At the 2001 ITF World championships he was a singles semi-finalist on the grass / lawn tennis courts of the Royal Kings Park Tennis club in Perth Australia. Geoffrey Grant has, to date, won three USTA National senior single titles, seven USTA national senior men’s doubles titles and he was a National co-champion in USTA senior mixed doubles with Rosie Casals.

Professional

During the last decade Dr. Grant has been professor and an administrative manager at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth [ [Senior Manager of Research and Technology UNT-HSC 1998] ] and the University of Texas at Arlington [ [Director ATI. UTA Technology Business-Startup Incubator. 2003.] ] where he assisted and mentored entrepreneurs in their efforts to commercialize university intellectual property.

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