Nobel Prize Winner Rose to Meet with Media Friday

PULLMAN, Wash. — Irwin “Ernie” Rose, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, will be available to talk to members of the media from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Friday (Oct. 14) in room 224 of the Compton Union Building on the Pullman campus of Washington State University.

Rose, 79, will be honored Friday as the 35th recipient of the WSU Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award during a public ceremony, beginning at noon at the Compton Union Building junior ballroom. His lecture, “From Protons to Protein Breakdown,” will immediately follow.

Rose graduated in 1943 from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane. He attended what was then Washington State College in the 1940s and has said he was heavily influenced by Herb Eastlick, a long-time WSU zoology teacher.

Rose, an enzymologist and emeritus researcher at the University of California, Irvine, and two Israeli researchers received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.” Their discoveries may aid development of drugs to combat cancer, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. For more information about Rose and the award, see https://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2004/