Aaron Ciechanover

Curriculum Vitae

Birth October 1, 1947, Haifa, Israel
Education    
Elementary school 1953-1959 Haifa, Israel (“Hashiloach” and “Hugim” elementary schools)
High school 1959-1965 Haifa, Israel (“Hugim” high school)
University
(undergraduate and graduate studies)		 1965-1972 “Hadassah” and the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (M.Sc., M.D.)
M.Sc. thesis advisors: Drs. Benjamin Shapira and Jacob Bar-Tana
M.D. thesis advisor: Dr. Avram Hershko
Clinical internship 1972-1973 “Rambam” Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
University
(graduate studies)		 1976-1981 Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (D.Sc.)
Thesis advisor: Dr. Avram Hershko
Post-doctoral training 1981-1984 Department of Biology and the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, MA, USA
Laboratory of Dr. Harvey F. Lodish
Faculty position 1984-present Faculty of Medicine Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Degrees    
M.S.c 1970 Medical Sciences. Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry, “Hadassah” and the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
M.D. 1975 “Hadassah” and the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
D.Sc. 1981 Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Academic Appointments  
  1977-1979 Research Fellow. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  1979-1981 Lecturer. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  1984-1987 Senior Lecturer (with tenure). Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  1987-1992 Associate Professor. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  1992- Full Professor. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  2002- Distinguished Research Professor. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Administrative Appointments
  1993-2000 Director. The Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences. Faculty of Medicine. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Military Service  
  1974-1977 National Compulsory Service, Israel Defense Forces. Military Physician, Israeli Navy and the Unit for Research and Development, Surgeon General Headquarters. Discharged in the rank of Major.
Visiting Appointments
  1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 Visiting Scientist. The Institute for Cancer Research, The Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Dr. Irwin A. Rose’s laboratory).
  1985-present (at different periods) Visiting Professor. The Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. American Cancer Society Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Fellow and Visiting Professor. Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Visiting Professor. University of Kyoto School of Medicine (within the frame of JSPS – Japan Society for promotion of Science Senior Scientist Award).
Visiting Professor. Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Visiting Professor. STINT Fellow. Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC). The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting Professor. City University of Osaka School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan (within the frame of JSPS – Japan Society for Promotion of Science – Eminent Scientist Award).
Visiting Professor. Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2004, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 2005
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2004

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