L. Stephen Coles

Leslie Stephen Coles [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Leslie Stephen Coles |url= |quote= |publisher=American Men & Women of Science |date=1976-1979 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Leslie Stephen Coles |url= |quote= |publisher=Who's Who in the West |date=1974-1992|accessdate=2007-10-31 ] (born January 19, 1941) is a Visiting Scholar in the computer science department at the UCLA. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Coles, Stephen L. |url=http://www.directory.ucla.edu |quote=Visit Schr; Cmptr Sci |publisher=UCLA |date= |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] co-founder, and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group, [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=In Connecticut, World’s Oldest Woman Dies at 114. |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/nyregion/30old.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |quote=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.' |publisher=New York Times |date=January 30, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-16 ] cite news |first=Jeffrey |last=Zaslow |authorlink=Jeffrey Zaslow |coauthors= |title=Gerontology sleuths search for 'supercentenarians' |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05059/463487.stm |quote=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. |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |work=Wall Street Journal |accessdate=2007-10-31 | date=February 28, 2005 ] and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, in Los Angeles, California. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Rejuvenation Research |url=http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/rej.2006.9.503 |quote= |publisher=Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. |date= |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Demographics of Human Supercentenarians and the Implications for Longevity Medicine |url=http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1019/1/490 |quote=Department of Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA |publisher=New York Academy of Sciences |date= |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Aging: The Reality |url=http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/6/B579 |quote=Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. |publisher=The Gerontological Society of America |date= |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] He is a researcher and a spokesperson on supercentenarianscite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Research group tracks oldest-living people. |url=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/29038/ |quote=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. |publisher=Daily Bruin |date=June 10, 2004 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Researchers look for secrets of living to 100 and beyond. |url= |quote=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 ... |publisher=Baltimore Sun |date=December 31, 2006 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] and on aging. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity? |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/business/yourmoney/15aging.html |quote=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. |publisher=New York Times |date=April 15, 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ]

Biography

He is an M.D. and Ph.D., plus the author of numerous scientific papers, mostly on aging and supercentenarians. [cite web |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez |title=L. Stephen Coles |accessdate=2007-10-31 |quote= |publisher=NIH ] [cite web |url=http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Coles:L=_Stephen.html |title=L. Stephen Coles |accessdate=2007-10-31 |quote= |publisher=University of Trier ] and holds one patent. [cite web |url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=yuIgAAAAEBAJ&dq=%22L.+Stephen+Coles%22 |title=Method for imaging informational biological molecules on a semiconductor. |accessdate=2007-10-31 |quote=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. |publisher=United States Patent and Trademark Office ] The Web of Science shows that his works have been cited over 100 times, leading to an h-index of 7. [Web of Science, accessed July 2, 2008.]

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.cite book |last=Simon |first=Herbert Alexander|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Sciences of the Artificial |year=1996 |publisher= |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k5Sr0nFw7psC&pg=PA78&dq=%22l+stephen+coles%22&ei=7wA9R9-BN4vc7QLY-_mBDg&sig=I7TLGnup7ZFb6MTJv_5k-yhfLrccarn |isbn=0262691914 ] 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 On June 30, 1979 he married Shirley J. Ross, as his second marriage.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=L. Stephen Coles and Shirley J. Ross |url= |quote=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. |publisher=California Marriage Index |date=2006 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ]

He served as a Visiting Scientist for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Research and Development in Washington, D.C.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=L. Stephen Coles |url=http://www.maxlife.org/coles.html |quote=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. |publisher=Maximum Life Foundation |date=2006 |accessdate=2007-10-31 ] , and has published with Aubrey de Grey, Leonid Gavrilov and Jay Olshansky. [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] He is the treasurer of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation. [cite web |url=http://www.supercentenarian-research-foundation.org/organization.htm |title=Supercentenarian Research Foundation |accessdate=2007-10-31 |quote= L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D. - Treasurer |publisher=Supercentenarian Research Foundation ]

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

*US Patent|5314829

References

External links

* [http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2006/12/19/gupta.supercentenarians.cnn Gupta on CNN]