Yehuda Shoenfeld (born February 14, 1948)[1] is an Israeli physician and autoimmunity researcher.
Biography
editYehuda Shoenfeld works at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases. Shoenfeld is the editor of two journals, Harefuah (Medicine) in Hebrew with English abstracts and Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ). He is co-editor-in-chief of Autoimmunity Reviews,[2] and co-editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity,[3] and member of the editorial board of the Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology.[4]
Shoenfeld, proposed a syndrome he calls Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA), which aims to be an autoimmune response to vaccine adjuvants.[5]
Published works
editHe has published more than 2,000 papers.[6] Also, he has authored and edited 40 books and contributed more than 350 chapters to various books, most recently Vaccines and Autoimmunity published by Wiley Blackwell. Prof. Shoenfeld is on the editorial board of 43 medical journals.[7]
Awards and recognition
editShoenfeld received the EULAR Prize (Austria, 2005). He received the Nelson’s Prize for Humanity and Science from U.C. Davis (U.S., 2008). He was honored as Doctoris Honoris Causa by Debrecen University (Hungary, 2009). He has awarded a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine (Israel, 2012), as well as the ACR Master Award (U.S., 2013). He is an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Rheumatology, Slovenian National Academy of Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians (UK).[7]
Controversy
editTwo of Shoenfeld's scientific articles have been retracted.[8][9] A 2016 paper asserting a link between HPV vaccine and behavioral problems in mice, was retracted due to concerns about its methodology and data.[10]
Nili Cohen, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, has pointed out that "no human being can publish 1,939 papers" unless Shoenfeld’s true contribution to this vast amount of publications is insignificant.[11] She calculated that 1.54 papers per week have been published on average.
In 2015 an article was published refuting the relationship between adjuvants and autoimmune conditions.[12][13]
He served on the scientific advisory board of the anti-vaccine group Children's Medical Safety Research Institute, has spoken at a number of anti-vaccination conferences, and has regularly appeared as an expert witness for people attempting to prove injury from vaccines in court.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Yehuda Shoenfeld Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). WAIDID. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Autoimmunity Reviews" – via www.journals.elsevier.com.
- ^ "Journal of Autoimmunity - Editorial Board". www.journals.elsevier.com. Elsevier. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology".
- ^ Shoenfeld, Yehuda; Agmon-Levin, Nancy (Feb 2011). "'ASIA' - autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants". Journal of Autoimmunity. pp. 36(1):4-8. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024.
- ^ "Shoenfeld Y - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ a b "2016 Symposium: Advances in Autoimmunity" (PDF). NYU Langone Medical Center, Colton Center for Autoimmunity. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Inbar, Rotem; Weiss, Ronen; Tomljenovic, Lucija; Arango, Maria-Teresa; Deri, Yael; Shaw, Christopher A.; Chapman, Joab; Blank, Miri; Shoenfeld, Yehuda (2016). "WITHDRAWN: Behavioral abnormalities in young female mice following administration of aluminum adjuvants and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil". Vaccine. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.12.067. PMID 26778424. (Retracted, see doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.12.067, PMID 26778424, Retraction Watch)
- ^ Blank, Miri; Matthias, Torsten; Chapman, Joab; Harel-Meir, Michal; Slutsky, Inna; Zusev, Margalit; O’Kane, Sara Louise; Cahill, Dolores J.; Arango, Maria-Teresa; Shoenfeld, Yehuda; Kivity, Shaye (1 October 2017). "Retracted: Anti-ribosomal-phosphoprotein autoantibodies penetrate to neuronal cells via neuronal growth associated protein, affecting neuronal cells in vitro". Rheumatology. 56 (10): 1827. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kex259. PMID 28957569.
- ^ McCook, Alison (2017-08-15). ""The paper is extremely flawed:" Journal retracts article linked to vaccines". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ Gorski, David (2019-07-01). "The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elects antivaxer Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks". sciencebasedmedicine.org. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
- ^ Ameratunga, Rohan (2017-11-01). "Evidence Refuting the Existence of Autoimmune/Autoinflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA)". The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. 5 (6): 1551–1555.e1. doi:10.1016/j.jaip.2017.06.033. ISSN 2213-2198. PMID 28888842.
- ^ Hawkes D.; et al. (May 2015). "Revisiting adverse reactions to vaccines: A critical appraisal of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA)". J. Autoimmun. 59: 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.jaut.2015.02.005. PMID 25794485.
- ^ Kupferschmidt, Kai (2019-11-06). "Top Israeli immunologist accused of promoting antivaccine views". Retrieved 2020-01-10.
External links
edit- Session 13, Vaccine Safety Conference, Jamaica, 2011, "Autoimmune (Auto-Inflammatory)Syndrome Induced by Adjuvant: A New Syndrome to be Defined"
- Autoimmunity Congress, Through The Eyes of Participants and Professor Shoenfeld
- Autoimmunity Congress [1]
- Latin American Congress on Autoimmunity [2]
- International Congress on Controversies in Rheumatology and Autoimmunity [3]