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| From left: Carol Greider; Lee Goldman; Joseph Gall; Rodney Rothstein, professor, genetics and development, P&S, who provided the appreciation speech for the recipients; Elizabeth Blackburn; and David Hirsh, executive vice president, research, at the Horwitz Prize awards ceremony. |
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41st Annual Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Honors Three Generations of Scientists Each year, since 1967, the Horwitz Prize has been awarded by Columbia University to outstanding basic scientists in biology or biochemistry. This year, the CUMC selection committee chose to honor three scientists whose work has led to the discovery of the structure of telomeres and telomerase and thus to a fundamental understanding of the aging process. The recipients who were honored at the awards ceremony in November, were Joseph G. Gall, Ph.D., American Cancer Society Professor of Developmental Genetics at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore; Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., the Morris Herzstein Professor in Biology & Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco; and Carol W. Greider, Ph.D., Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and professor of oncology, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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