Avram Hershko

Avram Hershko (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.

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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:

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• Cancer
• Muscular and neurological diseases
• Immune and inflamatory responses
• Cystic Fibrosis

Born Hersk? Ferenc in Karcag, J?sz-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

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Honors & Awards

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1987 - Weizmann Prize for Sciences (Israel)

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1993 - Elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization

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1994 - Israel Prize in Biochemistry and Medicine

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1999 - Wachter Prize, by the University of Innsbruck, Austria (with A. Ciechanover)

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1999 - Gairdner International A ward, by the Gairdner Foundation, Canada (with A. Varshavsky)

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2000 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

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2004 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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December 31: December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is the final day of the Gregorian year....

1937: 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar)....

Biologist: A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms....