Awards & Winners

H. Robert Horvitz

Date of Birth 08-May-1947
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist, Professor
Howard Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Awards by H. Robert Horvitz

Check all the awards nominated and won by H. Robert Horvitz.

2002


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death)

1999


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of their pioneering contribution to our understanding of apoptosis.)

1988


NAS Award in Molecular Biology
(For significant contributions to the genetic analysis of the development of cell lineages in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.)