Avram Hershko Biography - Nobel Prize Winner (2004)

Avram Hershko (Hungarian: Herskó Ferenc) (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has a critical role in maintaining the homeostasis of cells and is believed to be involved in the development and progression of diseases such as:
1. Cancer
2. Muscular and neurological diseases
3. Immune and inflammatory responses
4. Cystic Fibrosis

Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, Hungary, he received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph. D in 1969 from the Hadassah Faculty of Medicine of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion (Israel Institutite of Technology) in Haifa and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at New York University.

 

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN CHEMISTRY PART II.

Grignard Victor

Grubbs Robert H

Haber Fritz

Hahn Otto

Harden Sir Arthur

Hassel Odd

Hauptman Herbert

Sir Walter Norman Haworth

Heeger Alan

Hershko Avram

Herschbach Dudley

Herzberg Gerhard

Heyrovsky Jaroslav

Hinshelwood Sir Cyril Norman

Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot

Hoff Jacobus Henricus

Hoffmann Roald

Huber Robert

Joliot-Curie Irene

Joliot Frederic

Karle Jerome

Karrer Paul

Kendrew Sir John Cowdery

Klug Sir Aaron

Knowles William

Kohn Walter

Kroto Sir Harold

Kuhn Richard

Langmuir Irving

Lee Yuan

Lehn Jean-Marie

Leloir Luis

Libby Willard Frank

Lipscomb William

MacDiarmid Alan G

MacKinnon Roderick

Marcus Rudolph A

Martin Archer John Porter

McMillan Edwin Mattison

Merrifield Robert Bruce

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