Prof. Ruth Arnon

Education and Poisitons: 1955 - M.Sc., Chemistry, from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 1960 - Ph.D. Hebrew University, work carried out at the Weizmann Institute of Science; 1971 - Associate Professor; 1975 - Professor; 1973-1974 and 1975-1978 - Head of Department of Chemical Immunology; 1984-1994 - Director of the MacArthur Center for Parasitology at the Weizmann Institute; 1985-1988 - Dean of the Faculty of Biology; 1988-1993 - Vice-President; 1995-1997 - Vice-President for International Scientific Relations.

Visiting Scientist: 1960-1962 - Rockefeller Institute, New York; 1968-1969 - University of Washington, Seattle; 1977-1978 - University of California, Los Angeles; 1983 - Institute Pasteur, Paris; 1994 - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne; 1995 - Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London; 1995 - ICRF-London; 1995 - Rockefeller Research Center - Study and Conference Center, Bellagio; 1996 - Fogarty Scholarship, NIH, USA; 1997-98-Fogarty Scholarship, NIH, USA. 1998 - Pasteur Institute, France.

Positions in Scientific Bodies: - WHO Task Force on Immunological Methods for Fertility Control (Steering Committee) 1972-1977; President of European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) 1983-1986; Secretary-General of International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) 1989-1993. Elected Member of EMBO. Chairman of the Science Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1995-2001). Advisor for Science to the President of Israel ; (2001-present); elected as member of EURAB (European Union Research Advisory Board) 2001 ג€“. Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia, President 2004 - . Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities ג€“ Vice-President, 2004 -. President, Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia, (AASA) 2004.

Prizes and Honors: - Robert Koch Prize in Medical Sciences, Bonn Germany (1979); Jimenez Diaz Award, Madrid, Spain (1986); Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1990); Chevalier of l'Order de la Legion d'Honneur, France (1994); Wolf Prize (1998); Hadassah World Organization's Women of Distinction Award (1997); Rothschild Prize (1998); Israel Prize in Medical Research (2001).

Published about 400 articles, chapters and books in the field of Immunology and Biochemistry.