David Ron
David Ron | |
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Portrait via the Royal Society (2014) | |
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) Ein Carmel, Israel[1] |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Spouse | Anne Crozat |
| Children | Thomas Ron |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | |
| Academic advisors | Joel F. Habener |
| Website | ron |
David Ron (דוד רון) FRS is an Israeli-born British biomedical researcher.
Biography and family
David Ron's parents, Arza Ron (ארזה רון) and Amiram Ron (עמירם רון), were professors of chemistry and physics at the Technion. His younger sister, Dana Ron Goldreich, is a computer scientist at Tel Aviv University. In 1972, Ron graduated from Municipal High-school III in Nave Sha'anan, Haifa.[1]
Higher education and career
Awarded a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, Technion in Haifa, Israel, in 1980, Ron went to medical internship and residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City, and in 1989 completed subspecialty training in Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, followed by four years of post-doctoral research training with Joel Habner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at Harvard Medical School. From 1992 to 2009 he was a member of the faculty at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine of New York University School of Medicine.[2][3]
In 2010, he moved to the Clinical School of Cambridge University,[4] where he serves as a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and the Professor of Cellular Pathophysiology and Clinical Biochemistry with a laboratory based at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.[5] In 2011 he joined Churchill College as a professorial fellow.[2]
Research
His laboratory researches molecular mechanisms by which eukaryotic cells adapt to the burden of unfolded proteins (stress) in their endoplasmic reticulum by way of the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR).[6] Especially notable is their contribution to understanding how stress promotes changes in protein synthesis through an arm of the UPR known as the Integrated Stress Response (ISR).[4]
Awards and honours
Ron was elected a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences (1993–1997),[7] served as the Edwin B. Astwood Lecturer of the Endocrine Society in 2011,[8] and was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2012,[9] the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013,[10] and the Royal Society in 2014.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Oral history interview with David Ron". Science History Institute. 1998.
- ^ a b "Professor David Ron". Churchill College. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ Sfeir, Agnel; Fishell, Gord; Schier, Alexander F.; Dustin, Michael L.; Gan, Wen-Biao; Joyner, Alexandra; Lehmann, Ruth; Ron, David; Roth, David; Talbot, William S.; Yelon, Deborah; Zychlinsky, Arturo (3 March 2022). "Basic science under threat: Lessons from the Skirball Institute". Cell. 185 (5): 755–758. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.008. ISSN 0092-8674.
- ^ a b Binaria, Res. "David Ron and the Unfolded Protein Response". ABCD - The Italian scientific community of cell and developmental biologists. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
- ^ Ron, David (7 September 2020). "Professor David Ron MD, FRS". www.cimr.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Scopus preview - Ron, David - Author details - Scopus". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Pew Biomedical Scholars". pew.org. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Past Laureate Award Recipients". www.endocrine.org. 28 September 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2026. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Fellow | Academy of Medical Sciences". www.acmedsci.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Professor David Ron FMedSci FRS | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2026.