Joseph Schlessinger

Joseph Schlessinger (born March 26, 1945 ) is an Israeli - American pharmacologist at Yale University . He is best known for his involvement in the development of the chimeric monoclonal antibody cetuximab , which is used as a novel cancer drug.

Schlessinger acquired in 1968 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem a Bachelor in chemistry and physics, in 1969 the same place a Master in Chemistry and in 1974 at the Weizmann Institute of Science a Ph.D. in biophysics . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and Immunology at the National Cancer Institute . From 1978 to 1991 he was a member of the teaching staff at the Weizmann Institute. After a professorship at New York University , he has been Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University since 2001 .

Schlessinger was Research Director at Rorer Biotechnology (merged into Rhône-Poulenc ) and is co-founder of the biotechnology companies Sugen , Plexxikon and Kolltan . He belongs to or was the editor of several scientific journals , including Cell and Molecular Cell.

Schlessinger and coworkers deal with the function of the receptors for growth factors and their intracellular signal transmission ( second messenger ), in particular with diseases that are caused by malfunctions of tyrosine kinases or other elements of the signal cascade.

Schlessinger has (as of October 2018) an h-index of 176.

Awards (selection)

1982 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
2000 member of the National Academy of Sciences
2001 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Haifa
2004 member of the European Academy of Sciences
2005 member of the National Academy of Medicine
2006 Keith R. Porter Lecture of the American Society for Cell Biology
2006 Dan David Prize from the Dan David Foundation and Tel Aviv University (together with John Mendelsohn )
2008 member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Web links

Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D. at Yale University (yale.edu)

Individual evidence

↑ Joseph Schlessinger. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar Citations, accessed October 22, 2018 .
^ Find people in the EMBO Communities. In: people.embo.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
↑ Joseph Schlessinger. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
^ List of Members. In: eurasc.org. European Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 22, 2018 .
^ Keith R. Porter Lecture Award. In: ascb.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
↑ Laureates 2006: Joseph Schlessinger. In: dandavidprize.org. Dan David Prize, accessed October 22, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schlessinger, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli-American pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1945

[1] Joseph Schlessinger. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar Citations, accessed October 22, 2018 .

[2] Find people in the EMBO Communities. In: people.embo.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

[3] Joseph Schlessinger. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

[4] Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

[5] List of Members. In: eurasc.org. European Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 22, 2018 .

[6] Keith R. Porter Lecture Award. In: ascb.org. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

[7] Laureates 2006: Joseph Schlessinger. In: dandavidprize.org. Dan David Prize, accessed October 22, 2018 .