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Aaron Ciechanover ( אהרון צ'חנובר ) (born October 1 , 1947 ) is an Israeli biologist .1In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research . Along with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose , he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin -mediated protein degradation . Born in Haifa , Israel , he received his Master of Science in 1971 and his M.D. in 1974 from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He received his doctorate in medicine in 1982 from the Technion (Israel Institutite of Technology), in Haifa. He is currently a Professor in the Unit of Biochemistry and Director of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion.2
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Aaron Ciechanover (אהרן צ'חנובר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist , and Nobel laureate in Chemistry .
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Aaron Ciechanover ( pronunction ah-hah- ROHN chee- HAH -noh-vehr ; 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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Aaron Ciechanover ( / ɑː h ə ˈ r oʊ n tʃ i ˈ h ɑː n oʊ v ɛər / AH -hə- ROHN chee- HAH -noh-vair ; ; 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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Israeli biologist and Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover ( / ɑː h ə ˈ r oʊ n tʃ i ˈ h ɑː n oʊ v ɛər / AH -hə- ROHN chee- HAH -noh-vair ; ; 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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Israeli biologist and Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover ( / ɑː h ə ˈ r oʊ n tʃ i ˈ h ɑː n oʊ v ɛər / 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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israeli biologist
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israeli biologist who won the nobel prize in chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade
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