Profile: Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko was born in Karcag, Hungary, in 1937.
Avram Hershko was born in Karcag, Hungary, in 1937. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Unit of Biochemistry, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion.

After emigrating in 1950 to Israel, where he took citizenship, he received his medical degree in 1965 from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then worked as a physician in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years, before going on to earn his PhD at the same institute in 1969.
Between 1969 and 1971, Hershko was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco in the United States, before becoming an associate professor at the Technion in 1973. He became a full professor five years later.
He received the Weizmann Prize for Science from Israel in 1987, the Gairdner International Award from the Gairdner Foundation of Canada in 1999, which he shared with Alexander Varshavsky, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research from the United States in 2000 with Ciechanover and Varshavsky for their work on the process of elimination of proteins.
Hershko has been a member of the Council of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1993.