Alexander Varshavsky - Curriculum vitae #

• 1970: B.S. in Chemistry, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia
• 1973: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow
• 1973-1976: Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow
• 1977-1980: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, M. I. T., Cambridge, MA
• 1980-1986: Associate Professor, Department of Biology, M. I. T.
• 1986-1992: Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, M. I. T.
• 1992-present: Howard & Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

• Member, Molecular Cytology Study Section, NIH, 1983-1987
• Co-organizer, Banbury Conference on the Ubiquitin System, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, 1993
• Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan, 2001
• Board Member, Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Mol. Medicine, 2002-2005
• Member, Advisory Board, Gairdner Foundation, Canada, 2002-2006
• Member, Advisory Board, Massry Foundation, 2002-2005
• Member, Advisory Board, Pasarow Foundation, 2002-2012
• Member, O’Connor Advisory Committee, March of Dimes Foundation, 2007-2012

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1995
• Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2000
• Foreign Associate, European Molecular Biology Organization, 2001
• Member, American Philosophical Society, 2001
• Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science, 2002
• Foreign Member, European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea), 2005

• Merit Award, National Institutes of Health, 1998
• Novartis-Drew Award in Biomedical Science, Novartis, Inc. and Drew University, 1998
• Gairdner International Award, Gairdner Foundation, Canada, 1999.(with A. Hershko)
• Sloan Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 2000. (with A. Hershko)
• Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, 2000. (with A. Hershko and A. Ciechanover)
• Shubitz Prize in Cancer Research, University of Chicago, 2000
• Hoppe-Seyler Award, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Germany, 2000
• Pasarow Award in Cancer Research, Pasarow Foundation, 2001
• Max Planck Award, Germany, 2001
• Merck Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2001.(with A. Hershko)
• Wolf Prize in Medicine, Wolf Foundation, Israel, 2001. (with A. Hershko)
• Massry Prize, Massry Foundation, 2001. (with A. Hershko)
• Horwitz Prize, Columbia University, 2001. (with A. Hershko)
• Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology, 2002. (with A. Hershko)
• Stein and Moore Award, Protein Society, 2005. (with A. Hershko)
• March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, March of Dimes Foundation, 2006
• Griffuel Prize in Cancer Research, Association for Cancer Research, France, 2006
• Gagna and Van Heck Prize, National Foundation for Scientific Research, Belgium, 2006
• Weinstein Distinguished Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2007
• Schleiden Medal, German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), 2007
• Gotham Prize in Cancer Research, Gotham Foundation, 2008
• Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Research, Vilcek Foundation, 2010
• BBVA Foundation Award in Biomedicine, BBVA Foundation, Spain, 2011
• Otto Warburg Prize, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Germany, 2012
• King Faisal International Prize in Science, King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia, 2012

• Honors Program Lecture, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, 2000
• Gordon Lecture, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2000
• Harvey Society Lecture, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, 2001
• Nelson Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2001
• Edsall Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001
• Keynote Lecture, Symposium on Growth Control, Salk Institute for Biol. Studies, La Jolla, 2001
• Dean’s Lecture, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 2002
• University Lecture, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 2002
• Keynote Lecture, Symp. on Ubiquitin in Normal and Cancer Cells, Vancouver, Canada, 2002
• Chiron Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, California, 2002
• Keynote Lecture, Symp. on the Ubiquitin System in Health & Disease, NIH, Bethesda, 2003
• Hofmann Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004
• Distinguished Guest Lecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2005
• Opening Lecture, FASEB Conference on Ubiquitin and Cellular Regulation, 2006
• Dulbecco Lecture, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 2008
• President’s Lecture, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 2010
• Distinguished Lecture in Signal Transduction, University of California, Irvine, California, 2010
• Alexander Rich Lecture, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011
• Keynote Lecture, Jacques Monod Conference, Roscoff, France, 2012
• Distinguished Visitor Lecture, Max Planck Inst. for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, 2012