Alexander Varshavsky#
| Membership Number: | 2321 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/content/alexander-j-varshavsky |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2017 Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology at Caltech
- 1992 - 2016 Howard & Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- 1986 - 1992 Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, M. I. T
- 1983 - 1987 Member, Molecular Cytology Study Section, NIH
- 1980 - 1986 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, M. I. T
- 1977 - 1980 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, M. I. T., Cambridge, MA
- 1973 - 1976 Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow
Fields of Scholarship
- Ubiquitin system
- N-end rule pathway
- New approaches to cancer therapy
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1995 Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health
- 1998 Novartis-Drew Award in Biomedical Sciences
- 1999 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2000 Sloan Prize in Cancer Research
- 2000 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 2000 Shubitz Prize in Cancer Research
- 2000 Hoppe-Seyler Award (Germany)
- 2000 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
- 2001 Foreign Associate, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2001 Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2001 Pasarow Award in Cancer Research
- 2001 Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 2001 Max Planck Award (Germany)
- 2001 Massry Prize
- 2001 Merck Award
- 2002 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2002 Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
- 2004 Wilson Medal
- 2005 Stein and Moore Award
- 2006 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
- 2006 Griffuel Prize in Cancer Research (France)
- 2006 Gagna and Van Heck Prize (Belgium)
- 2007 Weinstein Award in Cancer Research
- 2007 Schleiden Medal (Germany)
- 2008 Gotham Prize in Cancer Research
- 2010 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Sciences
- 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Biomedicine
- 2012 King Faisal International Prize
- 2012 Otto Warburg Medal
- 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2014 Albany Medical Center Prize
- 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2016 Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences (France)
- 2017 Wieland Prize (Germany)
- 2019 IUBMB Medal from the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2022 Debrecen Award in Molecular Medicine (Hungary)
- 2023 Hope Award in Basic Science
- 2023 Hogg Award in Cancer Research
- 2024 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
