Uri Seligsohn

Uri Seligsohn was born in 1937 in Tel Aviv

Uri Seligsohn was born in Tel Aviv in 1937. His parents, Dr. Ernst and Lili Seligsohn, came from Germany in 1934, and he was the first in the family born in the country. His father was a patent lawyer who helped lay the basis of Israel's patent law.

He attended the Shalva Gymnasium and served in the IDF from 1954 to 1957. He studied medicine at the Hebrew University and Hadassah from 1957 to 1963 and received his MD in 1965. He trained in hematology and internal medicine at Tel HaShomer, then did postdoctoral work in blood coagulation in Los Angeles.

In 1972 he founded the national hemophilia center at Sheba Medical Center and became its deputy director. He headed the hematology institute at Ichilov from 1979 to 1993, then founded a coagulation institute at Sheba. In 2004 he founded the Amalia Biron Institute and led it until he retired in 2017.

He taught at Tel Aviv University from 1966 and became a full professor in 1982. He was an editor of Williams Hematology and president of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis from 2000 to 2002. He was married to Hani, had 3 children, and died in 2022.