Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2018).
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H. Robert Horvitz
Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS is an American biologist whose research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston, whose "seminal discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" were "important for medical research and have shed new light on th…
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science · American biologist (born 1947) · biologist · university teacher · geneticist · physician · also H. Robert Horvitz, Howard Robert Horvitz, H. R. Horvitz, Robert Horvitz, R. Horvitz, Horvitz
Born 8 May 1947 · Q295659
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Won Mendel Medal (2007).
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
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Awarded Gruber Prize in Genetics (2002).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Won Genetics Society of America Medal (2001).
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Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (2001).
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2000).
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Awarded March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2000).
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Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2000).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Rosenstiel Award (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Novartis-Drew Award (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Hans Sigrist Prize (1994).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1988).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded W. Alden Spencer Award (1986).
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Identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4
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1981· 1 entry
Identified and characterized the gene lin-4, a "heterochronic" mutant that changes the timeline of cell fates
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1978· 1 entry
Horvitz was offered a faculty position at MIT, where he is currently Professor of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research
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1974· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (1974).
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Horvitz took a postdoctoral position at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, England, where he worked with his future Nobel prize co-winners Sydney Brenner and John Sulston on the genetics and cell lin
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1968· 1 entry
Enrolled in graduate studies in biology at Harvard University, where he studied T4-induced modifications of E
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-05-08.
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