Joram Piatigorsky

Joram Piatigorsky, Ph.D, is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2] He was a NIH Distinguished Scientist and the founding Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute (1981-2009), before stepping down and becoming an NEI Scientist Emeritus.

Publications

Joram Piatigorsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters on vision research. He published a book on evolution, where he summarized and extended his "gene sharing" concept,[3] and co-edited a book on an international symposium that he organized: Molecular Biology of the Eye: Genes, Vision and Ocular Disease.[4]

He published a novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes, which forewarns the danger of reducing funding for basic research.[5] Piatigorsky’s debut novel has met with positive reviews in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Joram Piatigorsky | Helen Keller Foundation". www.helenkellerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  2. ↑ "Joram Piatigorsky | Molecular Vision | ZoomInfo.com". ZoomInfo. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  3. ↑ Joram PIATIGORSKY; Joram Piatigorsky (30 June 2009). Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04212-4.
  4. ↑ Ringens, P.J.; Cotran, P.R. (1989). "Molecular biology of the eye, vol. 88: Genes, vision, and ocular disease" (PDF). American Journal of Human Genetics 45 (2): 340. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 1683347.
  5. ↑ Joram Piatigorsky (1 June 2014). Jellyfish Have Eyes. International Psychoanalytic Books. ISBN 978-0-9895622-6-3.
  6. ↑ Shurkin, Joel (2015). "Science and Culture: Using fiction to make the case for basic research". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (14): 4185–4186. doi:10.1073/pnas.1502378112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 25852137.
  7. ↑ "NEI Scientist Emeritus's Debut Novel Probes Jellyfish Eyes - The NIH Record - May 8, 2015". nihrecord.nih.gov. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Narrative NIH scientist enters literary world -- Gazette.Net". Retrieved 2015-06-25.

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