Professors Avraham Hershko and Aharon Chachanover, Nobel laureates from the Technion, were elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research

The list of fellows in the association represents the most important group in the world in biology and medicine, which was active in the second half of the 20th century and is active in the beginning of the 21st century

Professors Avraham Hershko and Aharon Chachanover, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the Technion, and their colleague Professor Irwin Rose from the University of California, were elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which will induct the first class of its Academy colleagues at the upcoming annual conference.

The AACR Academy was recently founded with the aim of recognizing and honoring outstanding scientists whose scientific contributions have driven significant innovation in the fight against cancer. The fellows were selected through a strict peer review process, which evaluates them according to their scientific achievements in cancer research. The Technion researchers and their colleague Rose were chosen "because their discoveries broke the ground for understanding the mechanisms of certain malignancies and paved the way for the development of drugs for them."

"Our Board of Directors decided to establish the AACR Academy as a mechanism to recognize scientists whose contributions in the field of cancer have a huge impact. Membership (as a fellow) in the AACR Academy will be the highest honor certificate given by the association," said Margaret Poti, the association's vice president.

The first group of AACR Academy Fellows will number 106 people, a number that symbolizes the age of the Association at the time of the establishment of the Academy.

The list of fellows represents the world's most important group in biology and medicine, active in the second half of the 20th century and active in the early 21st century. One of the most famous scientists in this group is Jim Watson, who discovered the double helix of DNA.

The list includes many Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including Professors Paul Berg (1980 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, for the discovery of the biochemistry of nucleic acids in DNA), Sidney Brenner (2002 Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, for the discovery of programmed cell death - apoptosis), Robert Lebkovitch (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 2012, for discoveries in the field of intercellular communication) and Shinia Yamanaka (nobel prize winner in medicine for 2012 for discovering the process of creating adult stem cells).

In the photo: Professor Hershko (from the left) and Professor Chakhanover. Photo: Technion spokespeople