- Zvi Laron
Zvi Laron is a
Romania n-Israel ipaediatric endocrinologist , born 1927,Cernăuţi ,Romania .Zvi Laron began his
medical education at the medicalschool inTimişoara . In 1948 he moved toIsrael and graduated from theHadassah Hebrew UniversityMedical School ,Jerusalem in 1952. 1956-1957 he was a research andclinical fellow in paediatrics at theMassachusetts General Hospital andHarvard Medical School Boston .From 1958 to 1992, Laron was director, Institute of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He was appointed professor in 1971. From 1983 to 1997 Laron was Incumbent of the Irene and Nicholas Marsh Chair in Endocrinology and Juvenile Diabetes,
Sackler Faculty of Medicine ,Tel Aviv University .Since 1998 Laron has been
Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Endocrinology,Tel Aviv University and Director ofEndocrinology &Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center ofIsrael . This centre was previously known as theBeilinson Medical Center ,Petah Tikva ,Tel Aviv .The well known
Laron syndrome related to a growth hormone receptor mutation is named after him.Zvi Laron has received many honours, among them the 1999
Andrea Prader Award .
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