David Ron

David Ron (דוד רון) is an Israeli-born British biomedical researcher.

Biography and family David Ron's parents, (ארזה רון) and (עמירם רון), were professors of chemistry and physics at the Technion. His younger sister, Dana Ron Goldreich, is a computer scientist at Tel Aviv University. In 1972, Ron graduated from Municipal High-school III in Nave Sha'anan, Haifa.

In 2010, he moved to the Clinical School of Cambridge University, where he serves as a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and the Professor of Cellular Pathophysiology and Clinical Biochemistry with a laboratory based at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. In 2011 he joined Churchill College as a professorial fellow. Especially notable is their contribution to understanding how stress promotes changes in protein synthesis through an arm of the UPR known as the Integrated Stress Response (ISR). served as the Edwin B. Astwood Lecturer of the Endocrine Society in 2011, and was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2012, the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013, and the Royal Society in 2014.