Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (October 26, 1935 – May 30, 1990) was an American medical researcher who investigated the influence of hormones, particularly insulin, on the control of cell growth.
She was a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Isaac Mendelsohn, her father, was a professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University and her mother, Fanny Soier, was a remedial reading teacher; both were Zionists.
[3] After the death of her husband in the early 1980s, Rosen married Jerard Hurwitz,[4] a fellow American Cancer Society member and researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
[1][3] In 1985, she and a group of other scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering and Genentech cloned the human insulin receptor (INSR) gene—a breakthrough in cell biology.