Professor Ciechanover is a Distinguished University Professor at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion and the co-director of the Technion Integrated Cancer Center. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Professors Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Among his many other prizes are the Israel Prize in Biological Research (2003) and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical research (2000). He is a member of numerous learned societies, among them the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academies of Sciences and of Medicine of the USA (Foreign Associate). Professor Ciechanover was also a member of our original Scientific Advisory Board.
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