The Academy's gathering, in honor of its members who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004, will be attended by senior scientists on the subject of ubiquitin in Israel and around the world
The Israeli National Academy of Sciences will hold a conference on ubiquitin in biology and medicine on Monday, October 31.10.05, XNUMX, in the lecture hall of the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. The gathering is in honor of the members of the Nobel Prize winning Academy for Chemistry who are researchers in the field; Prof. Avraham Hershko and Prof. Aharon Chachanover.
Ubiquitin was discovered and described in studies conducted in the late 2004s by Prof. Avraham Hershko and Prof. Aharon Chachanover from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, together with Prof. Irwin Rose from the Cancer Research Institute in Philadelphia. The studies led to a breakthrough in understanding the regulatory activity of the cell and contributed to the advancement of cancer research, degenerative brain diseases and other diseases. For this research work, the three won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for XNUMX. Ubiquitin is a protein that works in the cell and is used to mark damaged proteins, which are meant to be broken down in order to continue the normal functioning of the cell.
The conference will have four sessions and will include the best scientists in the field, from Israel and the world among them: Prof. Raymond Deshayes from the California Institute of Technology, Prof. Charles Scher from the Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and Prof. Frauk Melchior from George August University in Germany.
