Yehuda Shoenfeld

Yehuda Shoenfeld was born in 1948 in Topoľčany

Yehuda Shoenfeld was born on February 14, 1948, in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia, to Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. About half a year later he moved with them to Israel.

He studied medicine at Hadassah and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1972, and received his medical degree with honors in 1972. He then trained in internal medicine. From 1978 to 1980 he studied immunology and hematology at medical centers in the United States.

In 1985 he became head of an internal medicine department at Soroka hospital in Beersheba and set up an autoimmunity research lab. From 1989 he headed an internal medicine department and the center for autoimmune diseases at Sheba Medical Center, linked to Tel Aviv University. From 1992 he was chief immunology adviser to the Medical Corps.

His research covers human autoantibodies and the antiphospholipid syndrome. He proposed a syndrome he calls ASIA, linking autoimmunity to vaccine adjuvants. Two of his papers were retracted, and he has appeared as an expert witness in vaccine injury cases.

He edits the journals Harefuah and IMAJ and co-edits Autoimmunity Reviews. He joined the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2019 and was president of Ariel University from 2021 to 2022.