H. Robert Horvitz, born May 8, 1947. Nationality: American

Academic Education and Appointments
1972M.A. Biology, Harvard University
1974Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University
1978Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1981Associate Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1986 Professor of Biology, MIT Cambridge, MA
1988Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Honours and Awards
1986Spencer Award in Neurobiology
1988U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology
1991U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Member
1993V.D. Mattia Award (Roche Institute of Molecular Biology)
1994Hans Sigrist Award 1995Charles A. Dana Award
1996Ciba-Drew Award for Biomedical Science
1998Rosenstiel Award
1998Passano Award for the Advancement of Medical Science
1998General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, Alfred P. Solan Jr. Prize
1999Gairdner Foundation International Award
2000Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
2000Segerfalk Award
2000March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
2000Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry
2000Charles-Leopold Mayer Prize (French Academy of Sciences)
2001Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience
2001Genetics Society of America Medal