Ruth Arnon

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Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon , née Ruth Rosenberg (born June 1, 1933 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli immunologist .

Life

Her father, an electrical engineer, came from Brest-Litowsk , but moved with the family to Palestine as early as 1904 . Arnon studied chemistry at Hebrew University with a master’s degree in 1955. She then served as an officer in the Israeli army for two years . She then went to the group of Ephraim Katzir (then Katchalski) at the Weizmann Institute , where she received her doctorate under Michael Sela in 1957 , with whom she later worked a lot. She became professor of immunology at the Weizmann Institute and was its vice-president from 1988 to 1993. She was also director of the chemical immunology department at the Weizmann Institute from 1975 to 1978, director of the MacArthur Center for Parasitology (Weizmann Institute) from 1984 to 1994 , dean of the Faculty of Biology from 1985 to 1988 and vice-president of the Institute for International Relations from 1995 to 1997.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City , the University of Washington , UCLA , the Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie in Paris, the National Institutes of Health (Fogarty Scholar), the Walter and Elisa Hall Institute in Melbourne and at the Imperial Canter Research Fund in London.

With Sela, she pioneered the development of synthetic antigens . With Devorah Teitelbaum and Sela, she also discovered the therapeutic effects of synthetic antigens in an animal disease that was being studied as a model for multiple sclerosis . The development of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone , in which Arnon played a key role , arose from these investigations .

In 1998 she received the Wolf Prize in Medicine with Michael Sela . She received the Israel Prize (2001), the Robert Koch Prize (1979), the Jimenez Diaz Prize (1986) and the Rothschild Prize (1998). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (1990), of which she was Vice President from 2004 to 2010 and of which she became President in 2010. From 2001 to 2010 she was an advisor to the Israeli President. Arnon is a Knight of the Legion of Honor in France. In 2011 the University of Tel Aviv awarded her an honorary doctorate , and in 2014 the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . In 2017 Arnon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society since 2009 .

She is married to the engineer Uriel Arnon and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University
  2. ↑ Leuphana honors President of the Israeli National Academy. Press release from October 10, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed April 12, 2018 .
  4. ^ Member History: Ruth Arnon. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 12, 2018 (with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Arnon, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv