California Institute of Technology Harvard University
Occupation
Molecular biologist
Spouse
Lona Shepley
(m. 1969)
Children
2
Parent(s)
Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild
Joram Piatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher. [1] He was the founding chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (1981–2009). [2] He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research. [3]
He is the son of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild.[4]
^"Joram Piatigorsky | Helen Keller Foundation". www.helenkellerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
^"Research Labs and Branches | National Eye Institute".
^"Joram Piatigorsky – Helen Keller Foundation".
^"Piatgorsky House is Gone, But Pieces of History Were Saved". Los Angeles Times. December 1, 2014.
JoramPiatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher. He was the founding chief of the Laboratory of Molecular...
Their son, Joram, was born in Elizabethtown in 1940. Piatigorsky had three grandsons by Jephta (Jonathan, Evan, Eric) and two by Joram (Auran, Anton)...
advised them to move to a better climate to stop Joram's constant colds and ear infections. Gregor Piatigorsky also favoured Los Angeles, because many of his...
was made in the late 1980s by JoramPiatigorsky and Graeme Wistow during their research on crystallin enzymes. Piatigorsky determined that lens crystallin...
concept of gene sharing (or protein moonlighting) as fully developed by JoramPiatigorsky. The abundant water-soluble proteins of the vertebrate lens (by definition...
Institutes of Health (NIH). While at NIH, he worked in the laboratory of JoramPiatigorsky to understand the molecular biology of crystallins in the developing...
on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-4946-2. LCCN 2003025841. OCLC 53901436. Piatigorsky, Joram; Kantorow, Marc; Gopal-Srivastava, Rashmi; Tomarev, Stanislav I. (1994)...
Manufacturers.[unreliable medical source?] Nees, David W.; Fariss, Robert N.; Piatigorsky, Joram (2003). "Serum Albumin in Mammalian Cornea: Implications for Clinical...
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