Varshavsky) 2001 – Wolf Prize in Medicine (with Varshavsky) for "the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation." 2002 – The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture in the category of Life Sciences (with Ciechanover and Leo Sachs) 2002 – E.B. Wilson Medal (with Varshavsky) 2003 – Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA 2004 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery with Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation 2005 – Elected to the American Philosophical Society Publications Involvement with biotechnology Professor Hershko serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Oramed Pharmaceuticals. See also List of Israel Prize recipients List of Israeli Nobel laureates List of Jewish Nobel laureates Science and technology in Israel References External links including the Nobel Lecture The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and some of its Roles in the Control of the Cell Division Cycle Website at the Technion Avram Hershko's Short Talk: "Lessons from My Life in Science" "Hungarian" Nobel Prize winners Crooked Timber Avram Hershko Jewish Virtual Library Ubiquitin-Mediated Protein Degradation: From the lab to the bedside Dan Hersko The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 1937 births Living people Nobel laureates in Chemistry Hungarian Nobel laureates Israeli Nobel laureates The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School alumni Hungarian biochemists Hungarian emigrants to Israel Hungarian Jews Israel Prize in biochemistry recipients EMET Prize recipients in the Life Sciences Israeli biochemists Israeli Jews Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People from Haifa People from Karcag Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Massry Prize recipients Schleiden Medal recipients Jewish concentration camp survivors Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Members of the American Philosophical Society New York University faculty University of California, San Francisco alumni