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Avram Hershko (Hebrew: אברהם הרשקו, romanized: Avraham Hershko, Hungarian: Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Apr 26, 2024 · Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Aaron J. Ciechanover and Irwin Rose for their joint discovery of the mechanism by which the cells of most living organisms remove unwanted proteins.
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Biographical. I was born on December 31, 1937, in Karcag, Hungary. Karcag is a small town of around 25,000 inhabitants, about 150 kilometers east of Budapest. It had a Jewish community of nearly one thousand people.
PhD from Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. Contact. Email. Avram.Hershko @nyulangone.org. Is this your profile? Edit profile. Academic office. New York, NY 10016. Selected Publications. Role of Polo-like kinase 1 in the regulation of the action of p31comet in the disassembly of mitotic checkpoint complexes.
Distinguished Professor Avram Hershko is a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and holds the Mirochnick Family Chair in Life Sciences at the Technion Faculty of Medicine.
Renowned for the co-discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, which led to a 2004 Nobel Prize, Dr. Hershko helped explain how the cell functions as a highly efficient checking station wherein proteins are built up and broken down at a furious rate.
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Prof. Avram Hershko was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. He was awarded the prize together with his colleague Prof. Aaron Ciechanover and his American colleague Prof. Irwin Rose.
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