Alexander Levitzki - Curriculum vitae#

• 1963 M.Sc. in Chemistry and Bacteriology (Biochemistry Major) Summa cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
• 1968 Ph.D. in Chemistry (Biochemistry and Biophysics) Summa cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
• 1968-1971 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, with Professor D. E. Koshland, Jr. Jr.

Academic Appointments#

The Weizmann Institute of Science

• 1970 Senior Scientist, Department of Biophysics
• 1974-1976 Associate Professor (tenure)
  

• 1974 Associate Professor
• 1976 Professor

• 1974 Visiting Professor of Chemistry and Research Associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, The University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
• 1974 Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley.
• 1979-1980 Visiting Scientist, The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
• 1984-1985 Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
• 1993-1994 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, California
• 2001-2003 Visiting Professor, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco

• 1968-1971 Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship
• 1975 Bi-Annual Shlomo Hestrin Prize of the Israel Biochemical Society.
• 1978 Elected as a member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization).
• 1982 Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence Award.
• 1983 Bronze Medal for Biochemistry, Free University of Brussels.
• 1985 Chair, Wolfson Professor of Biochemistry, Hebrew University.
• 1985 Honorary Member of the American Society of Biological Chemists.
• 1990 The Israel Prize in Biochemistry.
• 1990 The Rothschild Prize in Biology.
• 1991 FEBS Lectureship Award.
• 1998 Schender Prize for Pharmacology and Drug Research.
• 1998 Lichtenstein Memorial Lecture.
• 1998-2001 Director, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 1999 Member, Israel Academy of Sciences.
• 1999 Vice-President, The Federation of Israeli Societies of Experimental Biology.
• 2002-2005 President, The Federation of Israeli Societies of Experimental Biology.
• 2002 Hamilton-Fairley Award, European Society of Medical Oncology.
• 2003 Medal of the University, University of Helsinki.
• 2003 Al Wolf Lectureship (IRSC), Australia.
• 2004 Chairman, The Division of Natural Sciences at the Israel Academy of Sciences.
• 2005 The Wolf Prize for Medicine.
• 2005 John H Blaffer Endowed Professorship University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• 2006 Honorary Scholar, Tel-Hai Academic College, Tel Hai, Israel.
• 2006 The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research Award, Tel-Aviv,Israel
• 2006 Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Award 2006
• 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa , Ben-Gurion University
• 2007 Member of the Board of Governors, Israel Cancer Association
• 2007 Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Award 2007
• 2008 Visiting Miller Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California at Berkeley.
• 2008 Visiting Paul Ehrlich Magic Bullet Lifetime Achievement Award in Oncology, 100th anniversary Paul Ehrlich meeting, Nuremberg, Germany ,
• 2010 Member, Academia Europea.
  

• 1975-1981 European Journal of Biochemistry, Belgium.
• 1982-1985 Molecular Physiology, Belgium.
• 1982-1994 Journal of Cyclic Nucleotide Research, USA.
• 1987- Cellular Signalling (Associate Editor), UK.
• 1987-1991 Current Topics in Cellular Regulation (Editor), USA.
• 1991- Pharmacology (Switzerland).
• 1993-1996 Science, U.S.A.
• 1995-2002 Anti-cancer Drug Design
• 1998-2001 Molecular Biology Research Communications.
• 2000 European Journal of Chemical Biology (ChemBiochem).
• 2002 Oncology Research, USA.
• 2003 Journal of Biological Chemistry, U.S.A
• 2006 Current Signal Transduction Therapy, U.S.A.
  

• 1982-1986 Biotechnology Research Consultants (BRC), Tel-Aviv, Senior Consultant.
• 1984-1988 International Diagnostic Laboratories (IDL), Jerusalem. Consultant and Member of the Board of Directors.
• 1987-1992 Rorer Biotechnology, King of Prussia, PA, USA, Senior Consultant.
• 1987-1991 Eldan-Tech, Consultant.
• 1993-1997 SUGEN, Inc., Redwood City, California, USA, SAB member
• 1993-1994 Vice President Research, SUGEN, Inc.
• 1995 EMBO Committee member, reviewing Biochemistry in Austria.
• 1997-2003 Chief scientific Advisor and member of SAB, Peptor, Ltd.
• 2000 Co-founder, TK Signal, Israel.
• 2001 Founder, Algen Biopharmaceuticals, Israel and USA. Visit online at: http://www.algen.co.il
• 2001 Co-founder, UnResto (PDGFR kinase inhibitors for Restenosis).
• 2002-2005 ProteoLogics, Rehovot Israel, member of SAB.
• 2005 Founder, NovoTyr Pharmaceuticals.
• 2008 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
  

Others#

• Secretary of the Society for the Advancement of Science of Israel (1966-67)
• Chairman, Union of the Academic Staff of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1972-73)
• Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry (1980-84)
• Founder and Director, Interdepartmental Equipment Facility, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences (1980-84)
• Chairman, University Committee for Infrastructure and Equipment(1984-88)
• Elected (by the Senate) as member of the standing committee (1988-90)
• Elected (by the Senate) Member of the Executive committee of the Hebrew University (1995-98)
• Chairman, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences (1990-93)
• Director of The Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998-2001)
• Head of the Science Section, The Israel Academy of Sciences (2005-08)
• Member of the Board of Governors, Israel Cancer Association (2008-)

• Chairman sub-Group on non-covalent Regulation, International Union of Biochemistry (1985-89)
• Member of the EMBO Council (1988-94)
• Chairman, program committee, IUB International Congress of Biochemistry (1991)
• Chair, Interest Group on Metabolic Regulation and Hormonal Control, IUB (1991-2000)
• Member of International EMBO committees evaluating life sciences in Austria (1999) and Spain (2005, 2008/9)