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Charles Drew, born June 3, 1904, was an African-American Inventor. Drew attended McGill University Medical School in Montreal where he was a honor student specializing in physiological anatomy. He did countless research on blood plasma and transfusions in New York City but it was during his work at Columbia University where he made discoveries relating to the preservation of blood. He found that blood could be preserved and reconstituted at a later date by separating the liquid red blood cells from the near solid plasma and freezing the two separately. When Charles Drew developed the system for the storing of blood plasma (blood bank) he revolutionized the medical profession. Dr. Drew then established the American Red Cross blood bank, he was the first director to do so. He also organized the world's first blood bank drive, which they called "Blood for Britain" because he helped supply blood plasma for the British during World War II, this ultimately saved th