Professor Aaaron Ciechanover
On 16 November 2011, the Center for Advanced Studies, in cooperation with other WUT units, held a WUT Colloquium Lecture: Drug Development in the 21st Century and the Personalized Medicine Revolution: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases? given by Professor Aaron Ciechanover. Apart from delivering the lecture, Professor Ciechanover, received the Doctor Honoris Causa honorary title of the University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology. During his sojourn in Warsaw Professor Ciechanover visited the WUT Faculties of Chemistry and Physics and the Royal Ĺazienki Park in Warsaw.
Professor Ciechanover, one of the 2004 Nobel laureates in chemistry, was born in 1947 in Israel, where he started and continued his research in protein proteolysis and the mechanism of intracellular protein degradation. In 1982, in cooperation with Professors Irwin Rose and Avram Hershko, Professor Ciechanover discovered the ubiquitin-proteasome system. This discovery opened new possibilities in the drug development, especially in the production of the medicines against cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
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