Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanoverah-hah-ROHN chee-HAH-noh-vehr; 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...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 October 1947
CountryIsrael
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Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.