Alexander Levitzki#
| Membership Number: | 2798 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://biolchem.huji.ac.il/levitzki/levitzki.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - 2003 Visiting Professor, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- 1984 - 1985 Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
- 1979 - 1980 Visiting Scientist, The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- since 1976 Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1974 - 1976 Associate Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1974 Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley
- 1974 Visiting Professor of Chemistry and Research Associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, The University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
- 1970-1974 Senior Scientist, Department of Biophysics, the Weizmann Institute of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Enzymology
- Receptors and signal transduction
- Rational drug design and cancer treatment
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Elected as a member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- 1985 Bronze Medal for Biochemistry, Free University of Brussels
- 1985 Chair, Wolfson Professor of Biochemistry, Hebrew University
- 1990 The Israel Prize in Biochemistry
- 1991 The Rothschild Prize in Biology
- 1998 FEBS Lectureship Award
- 1998 Schender Prize for Pharmacology and Drug Research
- 1999 Member, Israel Academy of Sciences
- 2002 President, The Federation of Israeli Societies of Experimental Biology
- 2003 Hamilton-Fairley Award, European Society of Medical Oncology
- 2003 Medal of the University, University of Helsinki
- 2003 Al Wolf Lectureship (IRSC), Australia
- 2005 Chairman, The Division of Natural Sciences at the Israel Academy of Sciences
- 2005 The Wolf Prize for Medicine
- 2006 John H Blaffer Endowed Professorship University of Texas, M,D. Anderson Cancer Center
- 2006 The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research Award, Tel-Aviv,Israel
- 2006 Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Award
- 2007 Member of the Board of Governors, Israel Cancer Association
- 2007 Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Award
- 2008 Visiting Miller Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California at Berkeley
- 2008 Paul Ehrlich Magic Bullet Lifetime Achievement Award in Oncology, 100th anniversary Paul Ehrlich meeting, Nuremberg, Germany
- 2010 Member, Academia Europea
- 2011 Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Lecture, Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen
- 2012 The Nauta Award in Pharmacochemistry, The European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC)
- 2013 Seventh Annual American Association for Cancer Research, AACR, Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research
- 2014 Ilse and Helmut Wachter Award
