Sheba Hematologist Prof. Uri Seligsohn Awarded the Prestigious Robert P. Grant Medal from the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Sheba Hematologist Prof. Uri Seligsohn has been awarded the Robert P. Grant Medal from the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis. The prestigious global award is given once every two years in recognition of excellence in research, teaching and contribution to the profession. The medal was awarded to Prof. Seligsohn at the society's annual meeting in Geneva, which was attended by 7,700 hematologists from around the world.

Prof. Uri Seligsohn is director of the Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis at the Sheba Medical Center, former chairman of the department of hematology, and former deputy director of Sheba. He is also director of the Amalia Biron Research Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis at Tel Aviv University, former vice dean of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and former chairman of the Israel Association of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. In 1995, he was president of the Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis when it was held in Jerusalem, and from 2000-2002 he was international chairman of the society. He is one of only two doctors to be a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1991, he was awarded the esteemed Ham-Waserman Lectureship Award by the American Society of Hematology.

Prof. Seligsohn is credited with many advances and research discoveries in his field, including the salient international work on three inherited bleeding disorders that are particularly common in Jewish ethnic groups, as well as other molecular genetic and clinical aspects of derangements of blood coagulation.

Prof. Seligsohn can be reached at 03-530-2104 or 050-527-0659.