This year, the world-famous Israeli chemist Avram Hershko received the University of Debrecen Science Impact Award (uDEsia) at the University of Debrecen. The Nobel Prize-winning researcher was able to receive the institution’s most significant scientific recognition from László Csernoch, the vice-rector for science, on Wednesday, the institution said.
The uDEsia Prize, established by the Senate of the University of Debrecen, may be awarded to a Nobel Prize-winning or equivalent researcher who has a scientific relationship with the University’s researchers and research communities in any field of study at the University and undertakes to serve on the University’s Scientific Advisory Board) and as a member of the Advisory Board will help to raise the scientific standard of the institution. The nominee also undertakes to give classroom lessons to undergraduate or postgraduate students at the university.
The award was received on Wednesday by Avram Hershko, an Israeli biochemist at the University of Debrecen and a professor at the University of Haifa.
Avram Hershko is a professor at the Rappaport Family Research Institute at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and a professor of pathology at New York University. In 2004, he shared the Nobel Prize with two fellow researchers, Irwin Rose of the United States and Aaron Ciechanover of Israel, for identifying the biochemical mechanisms by which ubiquitin molecules separate protein molecules that are destined to degrade cells. The ubiquitin regulatory protein is useful in the treatment of several inflammatory diseases and may also play a key role in the treatment of bone marrow cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
The day before the award ceremony, the chemist gave a lecture to UD students and lecturers on the role of the ubiquitin system in health and disease at the University of Debrecen Life Sciences Building.
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