Nomination Form (MS Word File) Nominations Must Be Received No Later Than January 16, 2004

 
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was established under the will of the late S. Gross Horwitz through a bequest to Columbia University, and is named to honor the donor's mother. Louisa Gross Horwitz was the daughter of Dr. Samuel David Gross (1805-1889), a prominent surgeon of Philadelphia, author of "Systems of Surgery," and  former president of the American Medical Association.

Each year, since its inception in 1967, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded by Columbia University for outstanding basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. The purpose of this award is to honor a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contributions to knowledge in either of these fields are deemed worthy of special recognition.

The Prize consists of an honorarium and a citation which are awarded at a special presentation event. Unless otherwise recommended by the Prize Committee, the Prize is awarded annually.

INQUIRIES

Any inquiries should be addressed to:

The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Committee
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Office of the Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences 
and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
630 West 168th Street, 2-401
New York, NY 10032

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE AWARD

The Prize Committee recognizes no geographical limitations. The Prize may be awarded to an individual or a group. When the Prize is awarded to a group, the honorarium will be divided among the recipients, but each member will receive a citation. Preference will be given to work done in the recent past.

Prospective recipients should be nominated on an official Nomination Form (attached). This Form, together with the required supporting materials, should be forwarded to The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Committee, whose address appears on the top of this brochure and on the attached Nomination Form. 

Nominations Must Be Received No Later Than January 16, 2004
For Consideration by the Prize Committee

THE LOUISA GROSS HORWITZ PRIZE COMMITTEE

A committee of the Faculty of Columbia University in the City of New York is appointed by the President of the University to consider all nominations and choose the investigator, or investigators, to be honored by this award. The committee will be assisted in its deliberations by a panel of internationally known scientists distinguished in the fields of biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physiology.

 PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE LOUISA GROSS HORWITZ PRIZE

1967  Luis F. Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

1968  H. Gobind Khorana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Marshall Warren Nirenberg, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD

1969  Max Delbrück; Salvador E. Luria, Massachusetts Institute of Techn., 
Cambridge, MA 

1970  Albert Claude; George E. Palade, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Keith R. Porter, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD

1971  Hugh E. Huxley, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England

1972  Stephen W. Kuffler 

1973  Renato Dulbecco, The Salk Institute, San Diego, CA; Harry Eagle, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Theodore T. Puck, University of Colorado Medical Ctr., Denver, CO

1974  Boris Ephrussi, Paris, France

1975  K. Sune D. Bergstrom, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden; Bengt Samuelsson, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

1976  Seymour Benzer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Charles Yanofsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1977  Michael Heidelberger, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; Elvin A. Kabat, Columbia University, New York, NY; Henry G. Kunkel

1978  David Hubel, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Vernon Mountcastle, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 

1979  Walter Gilbert, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Frederick Sanger, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England 

1980  Cesar Milstein, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England

1981  Aaron Klug, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England

1982  Barbara McClintock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY; 
Susumu Tonegawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1983  Stanley Cohen, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN;
Vitkor Hamburger, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Rita Levi-Montalcini, 
Instituto di Biologia Cellulare, Rome, Italy

1984  Michael S. Brown, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dallas, TX; Joseph Goldstein, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

1985  Donald D. Brown, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD; Mark Ptashne, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1986  Erwin Neher, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany;
Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany

1987  Günter Blobel, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

1988  Thomas R. Cech, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Philip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 

1989  Alfred G. Gilman, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr., Dallas, TX; Edwin G. Krebs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1990  Stephen Harrison, Howard Hudges Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Michael G. Rossmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Don C. Wiley, Howard Hughes Medical Center, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA 

1991  Richard Ernst, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Zurich, Switzerland; Kurt Wuthrich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institut für Molekularbiologie und 
Biophysik, Zurich, Switzerland

1992  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungbiologie, Tübingen, Germany; Edward B. Lewis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

1993  Nicole Le Douarin, Institut d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Nogent-sur-Marne, France; Donald Metcalf, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medicine, Victoria, Australia

1994  Philippa Marrack, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; John W. Kappler, 
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

1995  Leland H. Hartwell, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1996  Clay M. Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1997  Stanley B. Pruisner, University of California, San Francisco

1998  Arnold J. Levine, Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

1999  Pierre Chambron, Institute Génétique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Université L. Pasteur, Illkirch-Strasbourg, France; Collége de France, Paris; Robert Roeder, Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Robert Tijan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;University of California at Berkeley

2000  H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Stanley J. Korsmeyer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2001  Avram Hershko, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Alexander Varshavsky, California Institute of Technology, CA

2002  James E. Rothman, Sloan-Kettering Institute; Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley

2003  Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University