Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag , Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye , Hungary, he received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph.D in 1969 from the Hadassah Faculty of Medicine of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion (Israel Institutite of Technology), in Haifa.

References

• Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., and Rose, I.A. (1979) "Resolution of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system from reticulocytes: A component that interacts with ATP". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, pp. 3107-3110.
• Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., Heller, H., Haas, A.L., and Rose I.A. (1980) "Proposed role of ATP in protein breakdown: Conjugation of proteins with multiple chains of the polypeptide of ATP-dependent proteolysis". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, pp. 1783-1786.

External links

• Nobel citation http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2004/
• Website at the Technion http://www.technion.ac.il/%7Erapinst/hershko.html
• http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002639.html