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In 1974, Horvitz took a postdoctoral position at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, England, where he worked with his future Nobel prize co-winners Sydney Brenner and John Sulston on the genetics and cell lineage of C. elegans.
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.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 was awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"
Oct 7, 2002 · The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 jointly to Sydney Brenner , H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their discoveries concerning “genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 was awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"
Oct 7, 2002 · H. Robert Horvitz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of three scientists who were awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death. Horvitz shared the prize with Sydney Brenner ...
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Oct 9, 2024 · For this work and for his studies concerning organ development in C. elegans, Horvitz shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. President of the Genetics Society of America in 1995, he is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of ...
