Alexander_Varshavsky

Alexander J. Varshavsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Варшавский; born 1946 in Moscow) is a Russian-American biochemist and geneticist. He works at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the Morgan Professor of Biology. Varshavsky left Russia in 1977, emigrating to United States.
His laboratory, initially at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later at Caltech, has discovered, during the 1980s, the first degradation signals (degrons) in short-lived proteins and biological fundamentals of the ubiquitin system. His current research continues to focus on the ubiquitin system and N-degron pathways.