Aaron Ciechanover (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

He earned a master's degree in science in 1971 and graduated from Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem in 1974. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1982 from the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology), in Haifa.

Awards:

In 2000, Ciechanover received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for biology.
in 2004, he was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has a critical role in maintaining the homeostasis of cells and is believed to be involved in the development and progression of diseases such as: cancer, muscular and neurological diseases, immune and inflammatory responses.