Premio Wolf de Medicina
Galardonados judíos del Premio Wolf de Medicina documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 41 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
25 galardonados documentados
César Milstein1927
Recibió el 1984 Premio Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Leo Sachs1924
Genetista who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley N. Cohen1935
Genetista who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Solomon Snyder1938
Neurocientífico who identified opiate receptors in the brain, transforming neuropharmacology.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Meir Wilchek1935
Bioquímico que desarrolló avidin-biotin technology, widely used in biological research and diagnostics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Elizabeth Neufeld1928
Bioquímico who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Seymour Benzer1921
Biólogo molecular who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Judah Folkman1933
Cirujano que fundó the field of angiogenesis research, opening a new approach to cancer therapy; Gairdner Award in biomedicine
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Sela1924
Inmunólogo who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic antigens.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ruth Arnon1933
Inmunólogo who co-developed Copaxone, a leading treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander Levitzki1940
Bioquímico who pioneered signal transduction inhibitors (tyrphostins) as cancer drugs
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Cedar1943
Biólogo molecular who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aharon Razin1935
Bioquímico who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Nahum Sonenberg1946
Bioquímico who elucidated the control of protein synthesis (translation) initiation
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Ravetch1951
Inmunólogo who elucidated the role of antibody Fc receptors in immunity
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
C. Ronald Kahn1944
Endocrinologist who elucidated insulin signaling and its role in diabetes
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist que descubrió leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Adrian Krainer2021
Desarrolló the first drug for spinal muscular atrophy (nusinersen); Premio Wolf in Medicine (2021)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Medicine)
Daniel Drucker1956
Endocrinologist whose GLP-1 research underlies modern diabetes and obesity drugs.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
José-Alain Sahel1955
Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Kandel2000
Showed in the sea snail Aplysia how learning changes synapses and how short- and long-term memories are stored; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2000
Fuente: Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Avram Hershko2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Gary Ruvkun1952
Biólogo molecular who, with Victor Ambros, descubrió microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Premio Nobel de…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024
Charles Zuker2026
Neurobiologist who identified the cells and receptors of the five basic tastes and how taste is represented in the brain; Premio Wolf in Medicine 2026
Fuente: Wikipedia — Charles Zuker