Mathilde Krim

Mathilde Krim (born July 9, 1926 as Mathilde Galland in Como , Italy ; † January 15, 2018 in Kings Point , New York ) was the founding chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), a society for the study of AIDS .

biography

Mathilde Krim was the first of four children of Elizabeth Rosa Krause, an Italian Catholic, and Eugène Emmanuel Galland, a Swiss Protestant. Her parents moved from Italy to Czechoslovakia and later to Switzerland. In Geneva, her father found a job as a public health officer.

After graduating from the École Supérieur des Jeune Filles , she began her studies at the University of Geneva . The embryo researcher Émile Guyénot became aware of her during her studies and hired her as an assistant in his laboratory. After graduating from university in 1948, she stayed with Guyénot and independently carried out extremely difficult microscopic studies on the chromosomes of those organisms in which Guyénot was particularly interested. For these studies she received her Ph.D.

During her studies she met David Danon, a Jewish student who was a member of the Irgun . She married him, converted to Judaism, and in 1951 their daughter Daphna was born. She became an active member of the Irgun Tzwai Le'umi Jewish movement, of which Menachem Begin was chairman at the time, and fought for Israel's independence by smuggling guns as well as by collecting donations for Israel. The family moved to Israel in 1953.

From 1953 to 1959 she worked in the field of cytogenetics and research into cancer-causing viruses at the Weizmann Institute for Sciences in Israel, where she was a member of the team that succeeded in performing prenatal sex determination for the first time .

In 1958 she married Arthur B. Krim , a New York attorney, head of United Artists and founder of Orion Pictures . In 1959 she moved to New York City and became a member of the Research College of the Medical School at Cornell University . In 1962, Krim became a research scientist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , one of the most important institutes for cancer research. Between 1981 and 1985 she was director of the interferon laboratory there.

Between 1975 and 1985 Krim published over 30 publications on cancer and interferon with several co-authors.

In 1983 her laboratory became involved in the treatment of some patients who had the rare Kaposi sarcoma . At the same time they were sick with a new immune deficiency disease. Crimea founded amfAR in 1985 based on her experience with AIDS sufferers and her research. In 1990 this organization merged with the West Coast AIDS organization founded by Elizabeth Taylor .

She had an ongoing calling as Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Management at Columbia University's Mailmann School of Public Health .

Krim had 16 doctorates "honoris causa" and received countless other honors and awards. On August 9, 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian honor in the United States, for her "extraordinary commitment and compassion".

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Individual evidence

^ Mathilde Krim, Mobilizing Force in an AIDS Crusade, Dies at 91 , New York Times , accessed January 16, 2018

personal data
SURNAME	Crimea, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli founding chairwoman of amfAR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Como , Italy
DATE OF DEATH	15th January 2018
Place of death	Kings Point , New York

[1] Mathilde Krim, Mobilizing Force in an AIDS Crusade, Dies at 91 , New York Times , accessed January 16, 2018