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Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM (born May 8, 1947) is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, [4] [1] for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston, whose "seminal discoveries concerning the genetic ...
H. Robert Horvitz is a renowned geneticist who studies animal development and behavior using the nematode C. elegans. He is a David H. Koch Professor, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
H. Robert Horvitz is an American biologist who, with Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002 for their discoveries about how genes regulate tissue and organ development via a key mechanism called programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
Biographical. “He can’t even throw a baseball!” was the way my cousin Harvey greeted me soon after my birth on May 8, 1947. Looking forward to a fellow athlete, Harvey, age three, found me ill prepared for sports. I suspect the disappointment continued, as Harvey progressed to become one of the star little league players in Chicago. I did not.
Bob Horvitz is a renowned molecular biologist who studies C. elegans and apoptosis. He is also a leader in science education and policy, serving on various boards and committees.
Through his studies of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, in 1986, Robert Horvitz identified two of the genes needed for programmed cell death to occur. He later showed that another gene protects against cell death, and also identified genes that regulate how dead cells are removed.
H. Robert Horvitz is a Nobel laureate and a professor of biology at MIT. He studies the genetic and molecular mechanisms of development, behavior, and cell death in the nematode worm C. elegans and their relevance to human diseases.
