Avram Herschko, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry
The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Born in 1937 in Karcag, Hungary.
In 1950, he emigrated to Israel.
He started studying medicine at the Hadassah and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in 1964, he graduated to M.D. In 1969 he graduated to Ph.D. at the same university.
Between 1969 ánd 1971, he worked as Post-Doc at theUniversity of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, in the laboratory of Gordon Tomkins.
From 1971 to 1973, he taught as Senior Lecturer at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa; in1973, he was appointed Associate Professor and in1978, Full Professor.

  • Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, 1987
  • Israel Prize in Biochemistry and Medicine, 1994
  • Member EMBO, 1993

 

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