Avram Hershko (born 31 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Hershko received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph. D in 1969 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Honours and awards:

1987 - Weizmann Prize for Sciences (Israel)
1994 - Israel Prize in biochemistry
1999 - Gairdner International Award Canada (with A. Varshavsky)
2000 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (with A. Ciechanover and A. Varshavsky).
2001 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
2001 - Wolf Prize in Medicine (Israel), jointly with Alexander Varshavsky, for 'the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation."
2003 - Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA
2004 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.