The Secret Handshake A personal documentary look at the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Prof. Arieh Warshel, Prof. Michael Levitt and Prof. Martin Karplus. From the documentary series The Nobelists on Israeli Nobel Prize winners, produced by “yes Docu” and Uri Rosenwaks. Film courtesy of “yes Docu”, The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, and The Avi Chai Foundation.

Monday 15th June, 13:30, Heller Cinema at the Zielony Student Building, Technion.

A screening of the film will take place followed by a panel discussion with Nobel Laureates (2013) Prof. Michael Levitt and Prof. Arieh Warshel and Uri Rosenwalks, Director and Producer of “The Nobelists”,

Interview with Distinguished Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, of Technion’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Head of Technion’s Integrative Cancer Research Center. Prof. Ciechanover won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 together with Technion’s Distinguished Prof. Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, of the Fox Chase Cancer Center,for the discovery of the ubiquitin system.

The Technion is one of the few institutions in the world that brings together biology and life science expertise together with top-level physical sciences and engineering that can help win the battle against cancer, including: the Faculty of Medicine with its wonderful life sciences research, Computer Science for processing large data sets, Electrical Engineering and Physics in order to develop devices for diagnoses and imaging, and Mathematics for new algorithms.
Film made by the American Technion Society.