The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-07
"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
H. Robert Horvitz
Born: 1947-05-08 in Chicago, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist
Biography
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".