Aharon Razin

Aharon Razin ( born April 6, 1935 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli biochemist and molecular biologist and former professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Razin was able to gain fundamental insights into the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation.

Life

Razin 1962 earned a Masters in Biochemistry ( minor in microbiology ), and in 1967 a Ph.D. with Yaakov Mager, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked Robert Sinsheimer. Even his more academic career spent Razin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1967 he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in 1971, Associate Professor in 1976 and Full Professor in 1982. 1969/1970 had Razin a research stay at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) in Pasadena, California, 1971, at Frederick Sanger at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and 1977/1978 at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. 2003 Razin became Professor Emeritus. Since 2013 it is one of Thomson Reuters due to the number of its citations to favorites to a Nobel Prize (Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).

Awards (selection)

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