Aaron J. Ciechanover#
| Membership Number: | 2702 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://md.technion.ac.il/aaron-ciechanover/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2011 Adjunct Professor and Director. The Institute for Chemistry andBiomedical Studies (ICBS), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Since 2002 Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel
- since 1992 Professor of Biochemistry at Israel Institute of Technology
- 1984 - 1992 Teacher of Biochemistry at Israel Institute of Technology
- 1981 - 1984 Researcher in Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1978 - 1981 Researcher at Fox Chase Cancer Center
- 1981 D.Sc. at Israel Institute of Technology
- 1972 MD at Hebrew University
Fields of Scholarship
- Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Member of Albert Schweitzer World Academy of Medicine
- 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(jointly with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose)
- 2003 Member of European Academy of Art and Sciences
- 2003 The Israel Prize for Biology
- 2002 EMET (Truth) Prize (Israeli Prime Minister Prize), for Arts, Sciences and Culture
- 2000 The Albert and Mary Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Fellow), the American Philosophical Society, the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) and Medicine (NAM) of the USA (Foreign Associate), the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; Foreign Member), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member), and the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
