Israeli Nobel Prize winner emerges from adversity

Sheldon Kirshner, Staff Reporter , "Israeli Nobel Prize winner emerges from adversity" (2 December 2004, The Canadian Jewish News)
Leading text: When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected Aaron Ciechanover’s as this year’s co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, he was praised as the co-discoverer of the ubiquitin system, which governs the degradation and death of cells in the body. But the human drama of his life as an orphan growing up in the Israeli port city of Haifa under his aunt’s and brother’s care and supervision was omitted. So was the fact that he and his brother, Joseph (Yossi), have carved out spectacular careers for themselves, despite the untimely deaths of their parents within a six-year period. Ciechanover, 57, studied medicine at Hebrew University, was a post-doctoral fellow in the United States and is now a professor of biochemistry at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology..."[FullText]