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H. Robert Horvitz

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American biologist

United StatesScientistsBorn 1947 · age 79
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Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM 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.

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2018honorary doctor of the University of Miami
2009Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2007Mendel Medal
2002Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2002Gruber Prize in Genetics
2001Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
2001Genetics Society of America Medal
2000Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
2000Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
2000March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
2000Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
1999Canada Gairdner International Award
1998Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
1997Rosenstiel Award
1996Novartis-Drew Award
1994Hans Sigrist Prize
1988NAS Award in Molecular Biology
1986W. Alden Spencer Award
Harvard Centennial Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wiley Prize

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Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM 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 the pathogenesis of many diseases".

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Born 1947 · age 79
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