Joram Piatigorsky
Joram Piatigorsky | |
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| Born | February 24, 1940 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Occupation | Molecular biologist |
| Spouse |
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.[citation needed]
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
- ^ "Joram Piatigorsky | Helen Keller Foundation". www.helenkellerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
- ^ "Joram Piatigorsky | Molecular Vision | ZoomInfo.com". ZoomInfo. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ^ "Piatgorsky House is Gone, But Pieces of History Were Saved". Los Angeles Times. December 1, 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 1683347.
- ^ Joram Piatigorsky (1 June 2014). Jellyfish Have Eyes. International Psychoanalytic Books. ISBN 978-0-9895622-6-3.
- ^ 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. PMC 4394243. PMID 25852137.
- ^ "NEI Scientist Emeritus's Debut Novel Probes Jellyfish Eyes - The NIH Record - May 8, 2015". nihrecord.nih.gov. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
- ^ "Narrative NIH scientist enters literary world -- Gazette.Net". Archived from the original on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
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External links
- Personal website
- Joram Piatigorsky reads from Jellyfish Have Eyes at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD
- 2008 Helen Keller Prize for Research Vision Ceremony
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