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Aaron Ciechanover

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Aaron Ciechanover

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Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate

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Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biochemist, chemist, physician, and pedagogue. Born in Haifa in 1947, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and has worked in the fields of biology and chemistry. He is a professor and employee at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he also serves as a member of the faculty. His academic affiliations include the Whitehead Institute.

Ciechanover received his education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was a student of Avram Hershko. His professional recognition includes the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Israel Prize, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the Sir Hans Krebs Medal.

He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ciechanover speaks English and Hebrew. He has a sibling named Joseph Ciechanover.

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Country
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

    · 2010 · cited 27,547x

  2. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 26,052x

  3. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,617x

  4. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data

    · 2021 · cited 15,035x

  5. Generative adversarial networks

    · 2020 · cited 13,852x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2004

    “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Aaron
Gender
male
Citizenship
Israel
Place of birth
Haifa
Sibling
Joseph Ciechanover
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Employer
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
Hebrew
Native language
Hebrew
Academic degree
professor
Student of
Avram Hershko
Field of work
chemistry
Image
Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover (cropped).jpg
Work location
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Aaron Ciechanover
date of birth
1947-10-01
member of
European Academy of Sciences
affiliation
Whitehead Institute
name in native language
Aaron Ciechanower
IPA transcription
ɑːhəˈroʊn tʃiˈhɑːnoʊvɛər
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Encyclopedic overview

Aaron Ciechanover (/ɑːhəˈroʊn tʃiˈhɑːnoʊvɛər/ AH-hə-ROHN chee-HAH-noh-vair; Hebrew: 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.

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