|
A Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Professor Ciechanover received his Doctor’s degree in medicine in 1975 at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in biology in 1982 at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa. Professor Ciechanover was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Avram Hershko, his Ph.D. advisor, and Irwin Rose, their collaborator (at that time in the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia) for their discovery of the ubiquitin system for intracellular protein degradation. In 2000, Prof. Ciechanover was awarded the prestigious Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research. Ciechanover also is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. | 