Mathilde Krim

Mathilde Krim (Hebrew: מתילדה קרים; née Galland; July 9, 1926 – January 15, 2018) was an Italian-American medical researcher. She was the founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She was born in Como, Italy to a Swiss Protestant father and Italian Roman Catholic mother.^[1] She worked at Weizmann Institute of Science, Cornell University Medical School, and at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.

Mathilde Krim in 1987

In August 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.^[2]

Krim died at home in Kings Point, New York on January 15, 2018, aged 91.^[3]