Background
Piatigorsky, Joram Paul was born on February 4, 1940 in Elizabethtown, New York, United States. Son of Gregor and Jacqueline (de Rothschild) Piatigorsky.
research scientist molecular biologist
Piatigorsky, Joram Paul was born on February 4, 1940 in Elizabethtown, New York, United States. Son of Gregor and Jacqueline (de Rothschild) Piatigorsky.
AB cum laude, Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1967.
Commissioned officer, United States Public Health Service, 1967;
postdoctoral fellow, National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1967-1969;
senior staff fellow development biology branch, National Institute Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1969-1972;
senior staff fellow Laboratory Molecular Genetics, National Institute Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1972-1974;
biologist Laboratory Molecular Genetics, National Institute Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1974-1976;
head section cellular differentiation Laboratory Molecular Genetics, National Institute Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1976-1981;
chief Laboratory Molecular and Development Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, since 1981. Ad hoc member cell biology study section National Institutes of Health, 1973, ad hoc member visual science A study section, 1977, member commission on convent utilization, 1983, mem.panel for research strategies for primary open- angle glaucoma, 1988, member panel for research strategies for cornea, 1988. Department chairman biology and genetics Foundation Advanced Education In Sciences, Inc., Bethesda, 1974-1987, board directors, 1977-1980.
Member panel national five year plan for cataract research National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1980-1981, member evaluation and update committee, 1985. Member of advisory panel Fogarty Scholars-in-Residence, 1983-1987. Member science advisory board National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation, 1985-1988.
Futterman Memorial lecturer U. Washington, 1986. Visiting professor Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy Medical Sciences, Beijing, 1987. Member science advising committee for ophthalmology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1987, member research visiting committee, 1994-1995.
Tenth Annual Basic Neurochemistry lecturer American Society Neurochemistry, 1988. Member science advisory board Whitney Marine Biology Laboratory, U. Florida, 1988-1992, trustee, since 1993. Member search com.for laboratory chief National Dental Institute, 1989.
Member search committee for laboratory chief National Institute Aging/National Institutes of Health, 1989. Donald P. Abbott Memorial seminar Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford (California) U., 1992. Welcome lecturer and visiting professor U. Louisville, 1992.
Seventh Robert R. Kohn Memorial lecturer Case Western Reserve U., 1993. 12th Frederick H. Verhoeff lecturer American Ophthalmological Society, 1993. Member search committee for director National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1993-1994.
Member awards committee Alcon Research Institute, Ft.Worth, since 1993. Co-leader Development Biology Interest Group/National Institutes of Health, since 1994. Member basic science review panel March of Dimes, since 1994.
Chairperson tenure track committee National Institute Child Health Development, 1995. Member science advisory board Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, since 1995. Fifth V. Everett Kinsey lectr.Ophthalmic Biochemistry Conference, Oakland U., 1995.
Organizer, co-organizer symposia in field. Invited speaker numerous lectures in field.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Cell Biology, American Society Zoologists, International Society Development Biology, International Society Eye Research, Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (member program committee biochemistry section 1979-1981, chairman 1981, trustee 1986-1990, vice president 1990-1991, member awards committee 1987-1990, Friedenwald award 1986, Special Recognition award 1992), New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi.
Married Lona Anne Shepley, August 24, 1969. Children: Auran Paul, Anton Jacob.