Alexander Varshavsky
Alexander Varshavsky ( Russian Александр Яковлевич Варшавский ; born November 8, 1946 in Moscow ) is a Russian - American biochemist and professor at the California Institute of Technology .
Life
Varshavsky earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Moscow University in 1970 and a Ph.D. for biochemistry at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow. From 1973 to 1976 he was a research assistant there. In 1977 Varshavsky emigrated to the USA, where he initially took on a junior professorship in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977 Assistant Professor , 1980 Associate Professor ) and became a full professor in 1986. In 1992 he moved to the California Institute of Technology , where he is Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology .
Act
By means of genetic studies on yeast and cell cultures of higher organisms, Varshavsky was able to elucidate numerous meanings of the ubiquitin system in the breakdown of proteins according to the N-End Rule , which play an important role in the cell cycle , in apoptosis , in malignant transformation , inflammation regulation and the immune response plays.
Awards (selection)
- 1987 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1995 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2000 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 2000 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
- 2001 Pasarow Award
- 2001 Max Planck Research Prize
- 2001 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2001 membership in the American Philosophical Society
- 2001 Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 2001 Massry Prize
- 2001 Foreign member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2002 EB Wilson Medal
- 2002 membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2005 membership in the Academia Europaea
- 2006 Léopold Griffuel Prize
- 2006 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
- 2007 Schleiden Medal
- 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
- 2012 Otto Warburg Medal
- 2012 King Faisal Prize for Science
- 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2014 Albany Medical Center Prize
- 2016 Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences
- 2017 Heinrich Wieland Prize
Web links
- Alexander Varshavsky. Interview with Istvan Hargittai. Imperial College Press (2006) in Google Book Search
- CV (PDF; 121 kB) on biology.caltech.edu; accessed on January 23, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alexander J. Varshavsky - Gairdner Foundation. In: gairdner.org. Accessed March 29, 2018 .
- ^ Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for Aaron Ciechanover , Avram Hershko and Alexander Varshavsky. laskerfoundation.org; Retrieved November 7, 2010.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter V. (PDF; 234 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varshavsky, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Варшавский, Александр Яковлевич (Russian); Varshavsky, Alexander J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American biochemist and professor at the California Institute of Technology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |