Joram Piatigorsky

Joram Piatigorsky
Born (1940-02-24) February 24, 1940
Elizabethtown, New York
Nationality American
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Occupation Molecular biologist
Religion Jewish
Spouse(s) Lona Shepley (m. 1969)
Parent(s) Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild

Joram Piatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2] He was a NIH Distinguished Scientist and the founding Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute (1981–2009), before stepping down and becoming an NEI Scientist Emeritus.

He is the son of Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild.[3]

Publications

Joram Piatigorsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters on vision research. He published a book on evolution, where he summarized and extended his "gene sharing" concept,[4] and co-edited a book on an international symposium that he organized: Molecular Biology of the Eye: Genes, Vision and Ocular Disease.[5]

He published a novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes, which forewarns the danger of reducing funding for basic research.[6] Piatigorsky’s debut novel has met with positive reviews in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,[7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Joram Piatigorsky | Helen Keller Foundation". www.helenkellerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  2. ↑ "Joram Piatigorsky | Molecular Vision | ZoomInfo.com". ZoomInfo. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  3. ↑ "Piatgorsky House is Gone, But Pieces of History Were Saved". Los Angeles Times. December 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ Joram PIATIGORSKY; Joram Piatigorsky (30 June 2009). Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04212-4.
  5. ↑ Ringens, P.J.; Cotran, P.R. (1989). "Molecular biology of the eye, vol. 88: Genes, vision, and ocular disease" (PDF). American Journal of Human Genetics. 45 (2): 340. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 1683347Freely accessible.
  6. ↑ Joram Piatigorsky (1 June 2014). Jellyfish Have Eyes. International Psychoanalytic Books. ISBN 978-0-9895622-6-3.
  7. ↑ Shurkin, Joel (2015). "Science and Culture: Using fiction to make the case for basic research". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (14): 4185–4186. doi:10.1073/pnas.1502378112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 25852137.
  8. ↑ "NEI Scientist Emeritus's Debut Novel Probes Jellyfish Eyes - The NIH Record - May 8, 2015". nihrecord.nih.gov. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  9. ↑ "Narrative NIH scientist enters literary world -- Gazette.Net". Retrieved 2015-06-25.

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