David Wallach

His parents, Tzvi Wallach and Ziva (née Ludmer), immigrated from Bukovina and Galicia (Eastern Europe)) shortly before World War II.

In these studies, he explored the mechanisms of cell-membrane generation, and of protein packing in glandular secretory granules.

His postdoctoral research was carried out on signaling mechanisms at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Maryland under the supervision of Professor Ira Pastan.

[4] He is married to Naomi (née Rosenberg), a writer and painter, and they have two children, including the poet Rachel Wallach.

Wallach’s work has contributed to the discovery of the ‘death domain’ protein motif, and provided the first evidence that proteases can serve as intracellular signaling molecules.