H. Robert Horvitz

Curriculum Vitae

H. Robert Horvitz, born May 8, 1947. Nationality: American
Address: Department of Biology, Room 68-425, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
 
Academic Education and Appointments
1972 M.A. Biology, Harvard University
1974 Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University
1978 Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1981 Associate Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1986 Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1988 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Selected Honours and Awards
1986 Spencer Award in Neurobiology
1988 U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology
1991 U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Member
1993 V.D. Mattia Award (Roche Institute of Molecular Biology)
1994 Hans Sigrist Award
1995 Charles A. Dana Award
1996 Ciba-Drew Award for Biomedical Science
1998 Rosenstiel Award
1998 Passano Award for the Advancement of Medical Science
1998 General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, Alfred P. Solan Jr. Prize
1999 Gairdner Foundation International Award
2000 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
2000 Segerfalk Award
2000 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
2000 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry
2000 Charles-Leopold Mayer Prize (French Academy of Sciences)
2001 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience
2001 Genetics Society of America Medal

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

 

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