Joram piatigorsky biography of mahatma

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). ^[2] He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.

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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