Awards & Winners

Avram Hershko

Date of Birth 31-December-1937
Place of Birth Karcag
(Hungary, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County)
Nationality Hungary, Israel
Also know as Dr. Avram Hershko
Profession Physician, Chemist
Avram Hershko is a Hungarian born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Awards by Avram Hershko

Check all the awards nominated and won by Avram Hershko.

2004


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation)

2001


Massry Prize
Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation.)

2000


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For the discovery and the recognition of the significance of the ubiquitin system of regulated protein degradation, a fundamental process that influences vital cellular events, including the cell cycle, malignant transformation, and responses to inflammation and immunity)

1999


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and its many functions in the cell.)