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Rina Zaizov Marx

Rina Zaizov Marx was an Israeli pediatrician and pediatric hemato-oncologist who received the Israel Prize for medical research in 2005.

1932 to 2005Pediatric hemato-oncology in IsraelFounding the Hayim AssociationHolistic care for children with cancer

Occupation: physician, cancer researcher
Education: Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium

Rina Zaizov Marx was born in 1932 in Ness Ziona

Rina Zaizov Marx was born in 1932 in Ness Ziona to Yaakov and Rivka Zaizov. She grew up in Rishon LeZion and finished her schooling at the Herzliya Gymnasium.

After her military service she studied medicine in the first class of the Hebrew University medical school in Jerusalem, from 1952 to 1959. She then trained in pediatrics and hemato-oncology in the United States from 1959 to 1964.

Back in Israel she helped Professor Yehuda Matot found the first pediatric hemato-oncology department in Israel at Beilinson Hospital in 1966, and she headed it until 1972. From 1973 to 1997 she directed the national center for pediatric hemato-oncology, which moved to Schneider Children's Medical Center in 1993. She also taught at Tel Aviv University from 1966 and became a full professor in 1988.

She promoted a holistic approach that supported both the sick child and the family. She opened the first follow-up clinic in Israel for young cancer survivors and founded the Hayim Association in the 1980s. She died in 2005.