Alick Issacs
Alick Issacs · Science & Medicine
Biologist / biomedical scientist
1921, Glasgow, Scotland — 1967, London, England
Scotland · United Kingdom
Alick Issacs is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist / biomedical scientist
Alick Isaacs was a Scottish virologist who, with Jean Lindenmann in 1957, discovered interferon, the family of proteins that cells release to fight viral infection — a finding central to modern immunology and antiviral therapy. He worked at Britain's National Institute for Medical Research. Born into a Glasgow Jewish family, he was Jewish.
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Biologist / biomedical scientist
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