Zelig Eshhar

Zelig Eshhar
זליג אשחר
Born
Zelig Lipka

(1941-02-25)February 25, 1941
DiedJuly 3, 2025(2025-07-03) (aged 84)
Tel Yitzhak, Israel
OccupationImmunologist
Known forDevelopment of CAR T-cell therapy
Awards

Zelig Eshhar (Hebrew: זליג אשחר; February 25, 1941 – July 3, 2025) was an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. He was Chairman of the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute twice, in the 1990s and 2000s.