Joram Piatigorsky

Joram Piatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher at the National Institutes of Health. He was a NIH Distinguished Scientist and the founding Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute (1981–2009), before stepping down and becoming an NEI Scientist Emeritus.
He is the son of Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline de Rothschild.

Joram Piatigorsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters on vision research. He published a book on evolution, where he summarized and extended his "gene sharing" concept, and co-edited a book on an international symposium that he organized: Molecular Biology of the Eye: Genes, Vision and Ocular Disease.

He published a novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes, which forewarns the danger of reducing funding for basic research. Piatigorsky’s debut novel has met with positive reviews in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,