In 1982 he moved to the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he became Director of the Center for Gerontological Studies and Professor of Zoology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Medicine.
Леонард Хейфлик (; 20 мая 1928, Филадельфия) — профессор анатомии Калифорнийского университета (University of California) в Сан-Франциско, вице-председатель Американского геронтологического общества (:en:The Gerontological Society of America).