Ada Yonath
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Biography
Ada Yonath is focusing on protein biosynthesis and the antibiotics hampering it. In the seventies she established the first structural-biology laboratory in Israel.rnShe is the Director of Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular-Structure. During 1986-2004 she also headed Max-Planck-Research-Unit for Ribosome Structure inrnHamburg. Among others, she is a member of US-National-Academy-of-Sciences; Israel Academy; German Science Academy; PontificiaAccademia-delle-Scienzern(Vatican). She holds honorary doctorates from Oslo, NYU, Mount-Sinai, Oxford, Cambridge, Hamburg, Berlin-Technical, Patras, De-La-Salle, Xiamen, Lodzrnuniversities. Her awards include the Israel Prize; Louisa-Gross-Horwitz Prize; Linus-Pauling Gold Medal; Wolf-Prize; UNESCO/L’Oreal Award; Albert-EinsteinrnWorld Award for Excellence; and Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Abstract
Abstract : Towards control of resistance to antibiotics
