Garry Abelev
{{short description|Russian immunologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Garry Izrailevich Abelev
| image = Garry Izrailevich Abelev.jpg
| alt =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|1|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|12|23|1928|1|10|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russian Federation
| fields = biochemistry
| workplaces = N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center
N.F. Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology & Microbiology
Moscow State University
|alma_mater = Moscow State University (1950)
|known_for = immunology, oncology
|awards = 1975 William B. Coley Award
1978 USSR State Prize
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998)
}}
Garry Izrailevich Abelev ({{langx|ru|Гарри Израйлевич Абелев}}; 10 January 1928 {{en dash}} 23 December 2013) was a Russian scientist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2000),[http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-1497.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12 Russian Academy of Sciences] (in Russian) Doctor of Biological Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998). Laureate of the 1978 USSR State Prize.
Biography
Abelev was born in Moscow in 1928.
He studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (now MSU) at the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science from 1945 and graduated from the Department of Biochemistry of Plants in 1950.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-26 |title=Абелев Гарри Израйлевич |url=https://new.ras.ru/staff/akademiki/abelev-garri-izraylevich/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Российская академия наук |language=ru}}
In 1955 he defended his candidate's dissertation.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-07 |title=К 70-летию Онкоцентра. Публикация о российских корифеях онкоиммунологии, работавших в Онкоцентре, из журнала «Иммунология гемопоэза» |trans-title=To the 70th anniversary of the Oncology Center. Publication about Russian luminaries of oncoimmunology who worked at the Oncology Center, from the journal “Immunology of Hematopoiesis.” |url=https://www.ronc.ru/about/lenta-sobytiy/k-70-letiyu-onkotsentra-publikatsiya-statey-o-rossiyskikh-korifeyakh-onkoimmunologii-rabotavshikh-v-/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=ronc.ru |language=ru}} In 1963 he defended his doctoral dissertation.{{Cite web |title=Портрет: Г.И.Абелев {{!}} Летопись Московского университета |url=http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/7911 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626202717/http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/7911 |archive-date=2022-06-26 |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=letopis.msu.ru}}
He worked at the N.F. Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology & Microbiology from 1950 to 1977. He was hired as a preparator in the Biochemistry Department, then moved to the Department of Virology and Immunology of Tumours under the lead of Lev Zilber. Abelev worked his way up to the head of the laboratory, and after Zilber's death he became head of the department.{{Cite web |title=Умер академик РАН Г.И. Абелев |url=https://garriabelev.narod.ru/molbiol.html |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=garriabelev.narod.ru}}
From 1964 to 2006 he worked as a lecturer at the Department of Virology at Faculty of Biology at the Moscow State University. He has trained 22 Candidates and 4 Doctors of Sciences.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-26 |title=Абелев Гарри Израйлевич |url=https://new.ras.ru/staff/akademiki/abelev-garri-izraylevich/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Российская академия наук |language=ru}}
In 1967 he received the title of Professor. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (since 1990) and the New York Academy of Sciences. He also was an honorary member of the European Association of Cancer Research and a member of the Russian Supervisory Board of the International Science Counsil.{{Cite web |title=Абелев Гарри Израйлевич. {{!}} ИС АРАН |url=https://isaran.ru/?q=ru/person&guid=97DAA08C-1711-D606-307E-D3986ABDC456 |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=isaran.ru}}
In 1977, after a conflict with the directorate of the N.F. Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology & Microbiology, his department was transferred to the N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center.{{Cite web |date=2015-06-24 |title=23 декабря 2013 года после тяжелой, продолжительной болезни на 86 году жизни ушел из жизни Гарри Израилевич Абелев. |trans-title=On December 23, 2013, after a serious, long illness, Harry Izrailevich Abelev passed away at the age of 86. |url=https://www.ronc.ru/about/lenta-sobytiy/23-dekabrya-2013-goda-posle-tyazheloy-prodolzhitelnoy-bolezni-na-86-godu-zhizni-ushel-iz-zhizni-garr/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=ronc.ru |language=ru}}
Research
In 1963, in an attempt to find specific tumour antigens, Abelev's department discovered an embryonic protein synthesised by liver cancer cells, α-fetoprotein. On this basis, the Abelev-Tatarinov reaction was developed for immunodiagnosis of liver cancer and teratoblastoma of the ovary. In addition, the detection of α-fetoprotein in hepatoma opened a new perspective on cancer as a reverse reprogramming of an adult cell into an embryonic cell.{{Cite web |title=Андрей Гудков. Живая часть судьбы: Памяти Г. И. Абелева |url=https://garriabelev.narod.ru/gudkov.html |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=garriabelev.narod.ru}}
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Category:Russian immunologists
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Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
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