Professor Aharon Chahanover was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Academy is one of the oldest and most respected associations in the USA (it was founded in 1780) and one of the largest independent research centers in the USA

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004), research professor Aharon Chachanover of the Rapaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, is one of the new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy is one of the oldest and most respected associations in the USA (it was founded in 1780) and one of the largest independent research centers in the USA.
The new group of members, announced by the Academy, includes members of science, art, humanities and other fields. These are 190 new members and 22 foreign honorary members who are leaders in their fields, among them Nobel laureates as well as other laureates - Pulitzer, Pritzker, Academy Award and Grammy, and recipients of an honorary degree from the Kennedy Center. The sensitive foreign members come from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Israel.
The 212 members - academics, scientists, artists and civic, business and philanthropic leaders - come from twenty countries and 15 countries, and their ages range from 37 to 86. The new members represent more than 50 universities and more than ten corporations as well as museums, national laboratories and private research institutes , funds and means of communication.
Professor Chechenover is the recipient of the Israel Prize in Biology Research for 2003 and a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences since 2004.