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Research scientist, AIDS activist, co-founder of amfAR (Foundation for AIDS Research), and philanthropist. Mathilde Krim was best known for her tireless work in promoting research to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Beginning in the early years of the disease, when its transmission and pathogenesis was less understood, she became one of the country’s most visible advocates for the need to adequately fund research as well as an outspoken champion of the human rights and dignity of persons living with HIV/AIDS. Her work was instrumental in raising the alarm--both in the United States and globally--to address the escalating AIDS epidemic in the 1980s-2000s.
Born July 9, 1926 in Como, Italy as the first of four children to Rosa Krause and Eugene Emmanuel Galland, Mathilde Krim received her bachelor’s degree (1948) and PhD (1953) from the University of Geneva and worked in cytogenetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel (1953-1959). She went on to research positions at Cornell University Medical College (1959-1962) and the Sloan-Kettering Institute f
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Mathilde Krim
Early in her university career, Krim came to the attention of the noted invertebrate embryologist Émile Guyenot, who, impressed with her technical and experimental skill, invited her to be an assistant in his laboratory. In 1948, she was granted the License degree (the equivalent of a bachelor of science degree in the United States). She continued to work as an employee in Guyenot’s laboratory but independently undertook exceptionally difficult electron micrographical studies of the chromosomes of some of the organisms that interested Guyenot. For these latter studies she was awarded a PhD in 1953.
Thus she became a member of the very tiny group of women with advanced degrees in science. From her vantage point, however, this accomplishment almost paled by comparison to the other extraordinary turn that her life had taken. During the war years, she had found a job as a part-time clerk in the office of a Jewish lawyer, Maître Jean Heyman. Assigned the task of carrying papers to various government offices, she became dimly aware that, for some reason, large number
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Mathilde Krim facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mathilde Krim | |
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| Born | Mathilde Galland (1926-07-09)July 9, 1926 Como, Italy |
| Died | January 15, 2018(2018-01-15) (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva, Ph.D., 1953 |
| Occupation | Medical researcher |
| Employer | Weizmann Institute of Science, Cornell University Medical School, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research |
| Known for | Founding chairman of amfAR, an association for AIDS research |
| Movement | Irgun |
| Spouse(s) | David Danon (m. 1948, divorced)Arthur B. Krim (m. 1958; died 1994) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | 16 doctorates honoris causa, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Jefferson Awards Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged |
Mathilde Krim (Hebrew: מתילדה קרים; née Galland; July 9, 1926 – January 15, 2018) was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of amfAR, American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Biography
Mathilde Galland was born in Como, Italy to a Swiss Protestant father and Italian Roman Catholic mother. She received her Ph
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