Nobel laureate Prof. Aharon Chachanover is working on the development of anti-cancer drugs based on his revolutionary research

The lecture took place on Tuesday (Tuesday) as part of the events of the Board of Trustees of Bar-Ilan University, during which Chechanover is awarded an honorary doctorate.

The research group led by Prof. Aharon Chachanover, a Nobel laureate, is working on understanding the self-degradation mechanism of the ubiquitin protein and developing additional anti-cancer drugs. This was stated today in Prof. Chachanover's lecture, which took place today, on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University.

Prof. Chachanover was the first in the world to discover a unique mechanism for breaking down proteins in the living cell. It is a complex protein system that includes the protein ubiquitin and other active units. This system enables the selective breakdown of the cell's proteins and is designed to preserve its normal way of life, in addition to the cellular secretion mechanism that was known until now.

"The ubiquitin system, which breaks down intracellular proteins in a selective manner, started out as a theory that no one believed in and today is an iron sheep asset to both the scientific and medical community. The discovery caused a breakthrough in the field of medicine with the development of a more effective drug than currently available for the terminal disease multiple myeloma." Chechenover said these things in front of hundreds of researchers and scientists from around the country who crowded the congress center in Bar Ilan where his lecture was held. The revolutionary discovery earned Chechenover and his colleague Prof. Avraham Hershko, both from the Technion in Haifa, the Nobel Prize in 2004. As you remember, the discovery is shared.

The president of Bar Ilan University, Prof. Moshe Keva, who was present at Herza, said that "Prof. Chachanover represents the State of Israel in a Zionist and Jewish way that inspires pride and is an example and a symbol. His fight for education and science in Israel is helping us save the higher education system in Israel."

The lecture was attended by Prof. Kent Hochberg, Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Prof. Haim Breitbert, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, and Prof. Haim Soknik, Head of the Department of Chemistry.