Meir Wilchek

Meir Wilchek (* 1935 in Warsaw) is an Israeli biochemist.

Wilchek escaped the Holocaust over Siberia and came in 1949 with his mother and sister to Israel. His father died in Flossenbiirg. He studied (after service in the Israeli Air Force ) Chemistry and Physics at Bar- Ilan University (Bachelor 1960) and in 1963 received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute, while he worked simultaneously as chief chemist in a company ( Yeda Research and Development Company, Rehovot ). He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Biophysics and Biochemistry.

Wilchek is for the development of affinity chromatography, and the application (including, for example, in the hemo-perfusion treatment ) is known, and for the development of affinity Affinity labeling and therapy.

In 1987 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine with Pedro Cuatrecasas. In 1990 he was awarded the Israel Prize, the same year the Sarstedt price, the price and Pierce 1984 Rothschild price. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a multiple honorary doctorates. In 2004 he received the Wilhelm Exner Medal and 2005 the Emet price. He is an honorary citizen of Rehovot.