Chemistry Nobel Laureate to Give Speech Today

Written by DAP NEWS -- Thursday, 05 November 2009

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

Prof. Aaron J. Ciechanover, a 2004 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry and a distinguished research rrofessor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Techno Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and a Member of the Advisory Board of the International Peace Foundation, will give a speech for peace at the University of Cambodia (UC) today.

The keynote speech and dialogue at UC in Phnom Penh begins at 2 pm, a UC official said yesterday. According to the schedule, Ciechanover planned to deliver his speech on November 4 but was delayed. On Friday, Nove-mber 6, 2009 at 2 pm, he will have public dialogue with researchers at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia in cooperation with the Royal University of Phnom Penh, a press release said. Ciechanover here is to promote a culture of peace and share experience with Cambodian students and other officials.

Aaron Ciechanover was Born in Haifa, Israel and received his Masters of Science in 1970 and his M.D. in 1975 from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1981 from the Technion and has been a Distinguished Research Professor at the Center for Cancer and Vascular Biology and the Director of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion. In 2004 he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Professor Avram Hershko and Professor Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, a mechanism by which the cells of most living organisms cull unwanted proteins.

Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose at the beginning of the 1980s discovered one of the cell’s most important cyclical processes, regulated protein degradation. For this they were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.