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presenting Jewish youth
from abroad for the title of
world Bible champion.
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quiz's judicial board is
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Israel Biblical Society.
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Friday, March 21, 1980 77
Weizmann Institute Research Tasks, Medical
Contributions Are Told by President, Dr. Sela
Notable contributions to
world-wide and at the
Weizmann Institute.
many fields that may well
One of the drugs recently
revolutionize the profession developed by the Weizmann
and remove health hazards, Institute showing promise
were outlined in a report to in arresting the progression
the Detroit Chapter of of crippling multiple
American Society for the sclerosis and denoted as Cop
Weizmann Institute, Tues- 1 — Copolymer 1, a synthe-
day evening, at the home of tic polypeptide — derives
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Borman. from the extensive labora-
tory and experimental work
carried out by a Weizmann
team headed by Prof. Sela,
who created the institute's
department of chemical
immunology in 1963.
Selective treatment of
MS patients in a series of
clinical trials of the new
therapy, reportedly free
of toxic effects and im-
munosupressive activity,
is about to begin here and
overseas: in New York at
the Albert Einstein Medi-
cal Center, in Jerusalem
at the Hadassah-Hebrew
University Hospital and
in Gottingen, Federal
DR. MICHAEL SELA
Republic of Germany.
Dr.
Michael
Sela,
The
three
other
president of the Weizmann
Institute of Science in Re- institute-developed ad-
vances are:
hovot, Israel, in an address
• A special form of in-
sharing the latest scientific
developments by the noted terferon, extracted from fib-
scientists at the Weizmann roblast connective tissue
cell cultures, which has
Institute, told of progress in
many areas, attained in an proven highly effective in
academic environment Israel intreating infectious
shared by hundreds of eye diseases and is being
scholars, including many projected for expanded clin-
ical testing of other viral in-
visiting from abroad.
fections. Much regarded as
Noting the expanded ef-
a potential anti-cancer
forts here for the Weizmann
drug, interferon production
Institute, Paul Borman
is limited to several re-
welcomed the guests at his
search centers around the
home, in his and his wife world, among them the
Marlene's behalf. The meet-
laboratories of the Weiz-
ing was co-chaired by Alvin mann Institute.
Spector.
• A class of chemical com-
Weizmann Institute
pounds
— known as amino
guests at the session in-
cluded Harold Hill, acid benzyl esters — iden-
tified by both the institute
executive vice president
and Massachusetts Insti-
of the American Friends,
of Technology resear-
and Eleanor Scapier, tute
chers as pointing the way to
public relations national the pharmacological design
director.
of drugs effective in the
Four new drugs and prep- treatment of sickle cell
arations — underway or anemia, a major health
being readied for clinical problem in the United
testing in the United States, States.
• A hormone extract,
Europe and Israel for the
treatment of multiple known as THE — thymic
sclerosis, sickle cell anemia, humoral factor. Derived
infectious eye diseases and from thymus gland
severe immunological de- secretions, it is now in clini-
ficiencies — were among cal trials in Israel for the
the research highlights dis- treatment of patients whose
immunological defenses
cussed by Prof. Sela.
As part of a three-week, have been critically im-
cross-country series of con- paired, because of birth or
ferences and briefings with countervailing therapies.
the scientific community
Dr. Sela was born in
and institute supporters in 1924 in Poland, received
New York, Miami, Palm his PhD from the Hebrew
Beach, Chicago, Detroit and University, Jerusalem, in
the West Coast, Prof. Sela 1954. He joined the staff
reviewed public expecta- of the Weizmann Institute
tions, prospects and prob- of Science in 1950, where
lems in the 1980s facing sci- he has been professor of
entific research establish- immunology since 1963,
ments in the West and in the year he created its
Israel; the Weizmann Insti- department of chemical
tute's potential for regional immunology. Since 1975
development, scientific co- he has been president of
operation and exchange; the Weizmann Institute.
training a new generation
Dr. Sela started as a pro-
of scientists and providing
for Israel's scientific man- tein chemist, studying the
power through its doctoral preparation, characteriza-
study and career develop- tion and properties of
ment program; and the sub- synthetic protein models.
stantial progress being This led in 1960 to his de-
made in immunology, both velopment of the first
science, medical research in
synthetic antigens which
permitted a better under-
standing of the molecular
basis of antigenicity as well
as a more precise approach
to immunological
phenomena such as genetic
control of immune response,
immunological tolerance,
antigenic competiton, role
of carrier in the definition of
antibody structure and
biosynthesis, and the size
and nature of the combining
sites of antibodies.
It was an achievement
that has made it possible to
advance research for the
strengthening of the im-
munological response
against disease, including
the overcoming of allergies
and auto-immune diseases;
the devising of methods for
treatment of hitherto in-
curable diseases; the estab-
lishment of potentials for
transplant acceptance
without impairing the cen-
tral immunological sys-
tem's capacity to resist dis-
ease; and new techniques
for earlier detection of cer-
tain types of cancer.
A member of the Israel
Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, he is a foreign
honorary member of the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, member of the
Pontifical Academy of Sci-
ences, foreign associate of
the National Academy of
Sciences of the United
States and foreign associate
of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United
States and foreign member
of the Max Planck Society.
He is also an honorary
member of the American
Society of Biological
Chemists, Scandinavian
Society for Immunology,
American Association of
Immunologists and French
Society for Immunology.
Dr. Sela is president of
the International Union
of Immunological
Societies and chairman
of the scientific advisory
committee of the Euro-
pean Molecular Biology
r
Laboratory. For five
years until 1979, he also
served as president of the
Council of the European
Molecular Biology Or-
ganiztion.
He is a member of the
advisory committee on med-
ical research of the World
Health Organization, as
well as of its special pro-
gramme for research and
training in tropical dis-
eases.
Institutions on whose
boards he served or serves
include the Basel Institute
for Immunology, the Plan-
ning and Grants Committee
of the Council for Higher
Education in Israel, Insti-
tute of Physicochemical Bi-
ology in Paris, Institute for
Scientific Research in
Cancer in Villejuif (France)
and International Institute
of Cellular and Molecular
Pathology in Brussels.
Over the years, Dr. Sela
has spent extended periods
abroad as a visiting scien-
tist at the U.S. National In-
stitutes of Health, as a visit-
ing professor in the depart-
ment of molecular biology
and virus laboratory of the
University of California
(Berkeley), as a professor of
the College de France (Al-
bert Einstein Chair) and as
the Fogarty Scholar-in-
Residence at the N.I.H.
Fogarty International Cen-
ter.
Soviet Emigration Slowdown
Due to High Dropout Rate?
relatives to leave Russia.
They indicated that they
NEW YORK — Soviet of- couldn't care less. They de-
ficials, claiming that Rus- pend on Israel to find ways
sian Jews have been misus- to get around the new Soviet
ing their exit visas to Israel regulations.
to reach the U.S., are now
The Soviet action has now
limiting Jewish emigration proved
correct
the
from Russia.
arguments of those Zionist
During the last two leaders who said that there
months, the number of is no moral justification for
Soviet Jews arriving in applying the status of "ref-
Vienna was half the ugees" to Russian Jewry.
monthly average recorded The Soviets are arguing
in 1979. In January, only that Jews may leave the
2,800 Jews came to Vienna country to be reunified with
as compared to the monthly their families in their
average of 4,100 last year. natural homeland — Israel.
As of February, the General Zalutov, head of
number leaving the Soviet OVER, the external visa di-
Union was 2,140 of which vision in the Interior Minis-
1,270 (58 percent) dropped try, has told Jews: "We keep
out in Vienna. the Helsinki accords re-
The Soviet authorities garding the reunification of
in the three republics, families and you break
and now in the Moscow them. The mass exodus of
district, are denying exit Jews to the U.S. hurts
visas to Jews wishing to internal relations among
leave if they do not have nationalities within the
immediate relatives in Is- Soviet Union."
rael. They still permit the
Another high-ranking
departure of Jews whose Soviet official in the Inter-
visas have already been for Ministry said: "You are
approved, but they are cheating us. The Soviet
responsible for delaying government will not stand
their departure.
for such lies. You embarrass
The dropouts with whom I us with the other peoples in
spoke last week in Vienna the Soviet Union who want
were told that their decision to go to Canada and other
hurts the chances of their countries."
By ARYEH ZIMUKI
Zionist oouneil in Israel