Aaron Ciechanover Explained

Honorific Suffix:ForMem, NAS
Birth Date:1947 10, mf=yes
Birth Place:Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Field:Biology
Alma Mater:Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MS, MD)
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (D.Sc)
Known For:Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Prizes:Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
Spouse:Menucha Ciechanover
Work Institutions:Technion, Israel
NCKU, Taiwan

Aaron Ciechanover (; Hebrew: אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

Biography

Early life

Ciechanover was born in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine on 1 October 1947[1] into a Jewish family.[2] He is the son of Bluma (Lubashevsky), a teacher of English, and Yitzhak Ciechanover, an office worker in a law firm.[3] His mother and father supported the Zionist movement and immigrated to Israel from Poland in the 1920s.

Education

He earned a master's degree in science in 1971 and graduated from Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem in 1974. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1981 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa before conducting postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1981 to 1984.

Recent

Ciechanover is currently a Technion Distinguished Research Professor in the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute at the Technion. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Russian Academy of Sciences and is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2008, he was a visiting Distinguished Chair Professor at NCKU, Taiwan. As part of Shenzhen's 13th Five-Year Plan funding research in emerging technologies and opening "Nobel laureate research labs", in 2018 he opened the Ciechanover Institute of Precision and Regenerative Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen campus.[4]

Nobel Prize

Ciechanover is one of Israel's first Nobel Laureates in science, earning his Nobel Prize in 2004 for his work in ubiquitination. He is honored for playing a central role in the history of Israel and in the history of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.[5]

Publications and lectures

Industry involvement

Ciechanover has served on the scientific advisory boards of the following companies: Rosetta Genomics (Chairman), BioLineRx, Ltd, StemRad, Ltd, Allosterix Ltd, Proteologics, Inc, MultiGene Vascular Systems, Ltd, Protalix BioTherapeutics, BioTheryX, Inc., and Haplogen, GmbH.[6]

Ciechanover is a member of the advisory board of Patient Innovation, a nonprofit, international, multilingual, free venue for patients and caregivers of any disease to share their innovations.

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Irwin Rose American biochemist. Encyclopædia Britannica. en. 2020-04-05.
  2. Web site: JINFO . Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry . 2023-03-30 . www.jinfo.org.
  3. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 . 2024-05-12 . NobelPrize.org . en-US.
  4. Web site: Ciechanover Institute of Precision and Regenerative Medicine Established CUHK-Shenzhen. 2021-03-20. www.cuhk.edu.cn.
  5. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004. 2021-04-23. NobelPrize.org. en-US.
  6. Web site: Haplogen – Scientific Advisory Board. 2019-02-14. 2021-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20210416083317/http://www.haplogen.com/about/scientific-advisory-board.html. dead.
  7. Web site: Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Recipient's C.V. .
  8. Web site: Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient .
  9. http://www.isracast.com/tech_news/101004_tech.htm Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko 2004 Nobel in Chemistry
  10. Web site: Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement . www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  11. Web site: Sir Hans Krebs Medal to Harald Stenmark. Oslo University Hospital. 16 December 2014.
  12. Web site: NCKU honors world class scientists, 2008. 2020-05-26. 2020-07-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20200727054620/http://satu.ncku.edu.tw/p/16-1036-4446.php?Lang=en. dead.
  13. Web site: Welcome to The University of Cambodia (UC). uc.edu.kh. 2018-05-09.
  14. Web site: Humboldt-Forschungspreis für Nobelpreisträger Aaron Ciechanover . 14 Feb 2023.
  15. Web site: Aaron Ciechanover . German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . 26 May 2021.