Isaac Berenblum

Isaac Berenblum ( born August 26, 1903 in Bialystok, † April 18, 2000 in Rehovot ) was an Israeli physician and cancer researcher.

Berenblum left at the age of three years with his family because of a pogrom Poland and initially grew until the First World War in Belgium and then in England. He studied physiology and biochemistry at the University of Leeds with a bachelor's degree in 1923. Was followed by a medical degree with a Bachelor 's degree in Medicine ( MB) and Surgery ( Ch.B. ) in 1926, the Master degree ( M. Sc.) 1936 and the graduation to the Doctor of Medicine ( MD) 1930. He was from 1927 Riley -Smith research Fellow in the Department of Biology and Experimental cancer Research, University of Leeds and from 1936-1940 Beit Memorial research Fellow at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was there from 1938 to 1948 director of the Cancer Research Group within the British Empire Cancer Campaign. 1940 to 1948 he was Demonstrator of Pathology in Oxford. 1948 to 1950 he was at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda (Maryland ), and from 1950 until his retirement in 1971 Head of the Department of Experimental Biology and Professor of Cancer Research at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. He has also been part-time professor of oncology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1966 he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Houston and 1971 at the Fogarty Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

Berenblum led in the 1940s from basic experiments on the mechanism of carcinogenesis induced by chemicals and led Shubik 1948 with a three-stage model of a ( initiation, promotion, latency / progression).

In 1980, he received the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize, 1959 Weizmann Price, 1966 the Rothschild prize in biology and the 1974 Israel Prize in Biology. He was an honorary member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1959 he was a founding member of the Israel Academy of Sciences. 1955 to 1975 he was chairman of the Israel Cancer Research Foundation ( Israel Cancer Association ).

He was married to Doris L. Berenstein and had two daughters.