Background
Razin, Aharon was born on April 6, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Yehezkiel and Matilda (Golante) Rosenberg.
biochemist educationist university professor molecular biologist
Razin, Aharon was born on April 6, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Yehezkiel and Matilda (Golante) Rosenberg.
He completed his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry, and did post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology.
Aharon Razin was raised in Petah Tikva. He began his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in physics and mathematics. When he returned to Israel in 1971, he served as senior lecturer, associate professor and full professor of cellular biochemistry and human genetics at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine.
In 1980, Razin was appointed head of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Institute of Biochemistry.
From 1988, he has held the Doctor Jacob Greenbaum Chair of Medical Sciences at Hebrew University. In his early studies, Razin examined the metabolism of nucleic acids and the biochemical faults in patients with gout and favism.
He later studied the specific mutation with the aid of a chemically synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid-sequence, deoxyribonucleic acid methylation in gene activity and methylation pattern production of single genes in the development of the fetus.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities]
He is a member of the board of the Authority for Research and Development at the Hebrew University, chairman of the Planning and Development Committee of the Faculty of Medicine and member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences advisory committee on the Human Genome.
Married Varda Wittenberg. Children: Gilad, Dalit.