Isaac Berenblum, (

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: יצחק ברנבלום, born 26 August 1903, died 18 April 2000) was an Israeli biochemist, who in 1947 proposed that cancers need another trigger to grow besides mutated DNA.

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* In 1958, he was awarded the Weizmann Prize for his research in

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, especially on neoplastic diseases. * In 1974, he was awarded the Israel Prize, in life science. *In 1980, he received the

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given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

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Prof. Isaac BERENBLUM

Charter Members , World Academy of Art & Science
1903 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Polish Jews Israeli biochemists Alumni of the University of Leeds Israel Prize in life sciences recipients Israel Prize in life sciences recipients who were biochemists Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Polish emigrants to Israel {{Biochemist-stub Weizmann Prize recipients

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