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Joram Piatigorsky
American molecular biologist and eye researcher
Joram Piatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher.
[1] He was the founding chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (1981–2009).
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[2] He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research. [3]
He is the son of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild.[4]
Publications
Piatigorsky is the author of several books, including a scientific textbook, a memoir, a novel and a collection of short stories.
Over the course of his career in science, he has published more than 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters on vision research.[5]
In Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions (Harvard University Press 2007),[6] Piatigorsky summarized and extended his "gene sharing" conc