Gideon Gross is an Israeli
immunologist,
inventor
and farmer. Together with
Zelig Eshhar at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli univ ...
, they created the first
chimeric antigen receptor
In biology, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)—also known as chimeric immunoreceptors, chimeric T cell receptors or artificial T cell receptors—are receptor proteins that have been engineered to give T cells the new ability to target a specifi ...
s (CARs).
He was dean of the Faculty of Sciences & Technology of
Tel-Hai Academic College
Tel-Hai College is a college located in Tel Hai in northern Israel, near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi and north of Kiryat Shmona.
The college offers academic and continuing education programs for approximately 4,500 students, 70 percent of whom come from ...
from 2010 to 2014. He is also a specialist
mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree '' Mangifera indica''. It is believed to have originated in the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. ''M. indica'' has been cultivated in Sout ...
farmer.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Israeli immunologists
Israeli inventors
Israeli farmers
Weizmann Institute of Science faculty
Tel-Hai Academic College faculty
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