13 Facts About Zvi Laron

Zvi Laron is an Israeli paediatric endocrinologist.

Zvi Laron's research opened the way to the treatment of many cases of growth hormone disorders.

Zvi Laron was the first to introduce the multidisciplinary treatment for juvenile diabetes.

Zvi Laron was born on February 7,1927, to a Jewish family in the Bukovinian city of Cernauti, then in Romania.

Zvi Laron was an active member of the Zionist students movement "Hasmonea", and left Romania in 1947 in order to emigrate illegally to Eretz Israel, then Mandatory Palestine.

The ship of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, "Pan York" was captured in the Mediterranean Sea by the British navy and its passengers, including Zvi Laron, were deported to internment camps in Cyprus.

Zvi Laron then did his internship at Rambam Hospital in Haifa.

Zvi Laron was one of the first members of the teaching staff of the School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and had a leading role in elaborating the pediatric teaching program at that institution.

From 1983 to 1997 Zvi Laron was Incumbent of the Irene and Nicholas Marsh Chair in Endocrinology and Juvenile Diabetes, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Zvi Laron founded the All-Country Center for Juvenile Diabetes and an endocrinological laboratory aimed to develop new methods of detecting hormones in blood.

Since 1998 Zvi Laron has been Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Endocrinology, Tel Aviv University and Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel.

Zvi Laron was among the founders of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes,.

Zvi Laron founded and served as Editor in Chief of the European Society of Pediatric Endorinology and the Growth Hormone Research Society of the scientific journals Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology and Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews.