Israel Pecht#
| Membership Number: | 4312 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 till present Professor Emeritus of Chemical Immunology, the Weizmann Inst. of Science
- 1998 - 2002 Head, Department of Immunology, the Weizmann Inst. of Science
- 1993 - 2006 Dr. Morton and Anne Kleiman Professor of Chemical Immunology, the Weizmann Inst. of Science
- 1989 - 1992 Head, Department of Chemical Immunology, the Weizmann Inst. of Science
- 1985 - 1994 Founding Head, Josef Cohn Minerva Center for Biomembrane Research, the Weizmann Inst. of Science
- 1981 - 1982 Distinguished Fairchild Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- 1977 - 1978 Visiting Senior Research Associate, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- 1967 - 1970 Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry, Goettingen, West Germany.
Fields of Scholarship
- Biophysical chemistry
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Molecular immunology
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Honorary Doctorate, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 2012 Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM)
- 2007 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science
- 2003 Landau Prize in Life Sciences, Israel
- 1999 Honorary Doctorate, Medical School, University of Debrecen, Hungary
- 1998 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1997 Honorary Member, the Hungarian Society for Immunology
- 1995 Bourse Henry de Rothschild by Institut Curie, Paris, France
- 1981 - 1982 Distinguished Fairchild Scholar of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 1980 Honorary Member, the Swedish Biophysical Society
- 1980-1992 First incumbent of the Jacques Mimran Chair of Chemical Immunology, the Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1977 Elected member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
