Isaac Berenblum
Isaac Berenblum (born August 26, 1903 in Białystok , † April 18, 2000 in Rehovot ) was an Israeli doctor and cancer researcher.
Berenblum left Poland with his family at the age of three due to a pogrom and grew up in Belgium until the First World War and then in England. He studied physiology and biochemistry at the University of Leeds with a bachelor's degree in 1923. This was followed by a medical degree with a bachelor's degree in medicine (MB) and surgery (Ch. B.) in 1926, the master's degree (M. Sc.) In 1936 and the Doctor of Medicine (MD) 1930. He was from 1927 Riley-Smith Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Biology and Cancer Research at the University of Leeds and from 1936 to 1940 Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University . He was there from 1938 to 1948 head of the cancer research group as part of the British Empire Cancer Campaign . From 1940 to 1948 he was a pathology demonstrator at Oxford. From 1948 to 1950 he was at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda (Maryland) and from 1950 until his retirement in 1971 he was head of the department of experimental biology and professor of cancer research at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. At the same time he was a part-time professor of oncology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1966 he was visiting professor at the University of Texas at Houston and in 1971 at the Fogarty Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.
In the 1940s, Berenblum carried out fundamental experiments on the mechanism of chemical-induced carcinogenesis and, with Philippe Shubik, introduced a three-step model in 1948 (initiation, doctorate, latency / progression).
In 1980 he received the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize , the Weizmann Prize in 1959, the Rothschild Prize in 1966 in Life Sciences and the 1974 Israel Prize in Biology. He was an honorary member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the New York Academy of Sciences . In 1959 he was a founding member of the Israel Academy of Sciences . From 1955 to 1975 he was chairman of the Israel Cancer Association.
He was married to Doris L. Berenstein and had two daughters.
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| SURNAME | Berenblum, Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli medic and cancer researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Białystok |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 2000 |
| Place of death | Rehovot |