The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by

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to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of

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. The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is named to honor his mother, Louisa Gross Horwitz, the daughter of trauma surgeon Samuel D. Gross. The prize was first awarded in 1967. As of October 2018, 51 (50%) of the 101 prize recipients have subsequently been awarded the

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(40) or Chemistry (11). It is regarded as one of the important precursors of a future Nobel Prize award.

Recipients

*1967

Luis Leloir Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 – December 2, 1987) was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose. Although born in France, Leloir r ...

(1970 Chemistry) *1968

Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and ...

(1968 Physiology or Medicine),

Marshall Warren Nirenberg Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" a ...

(1968 Physiology or Medicine) *1969

Max Delbrück Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest int ...

(1969 Physiology or Medicine), Salvador E. Luria (1969 Physiology or Medicine) *1970

Albert Claude Albert Claude (; 24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education s ...

(1974 Physiology or Medicine), George E. Palade (1974 Physiology or Medicine), Keith R. Porter *1971 Hugh E. Huxley *1972 Stephen W. Kuffler *1973 Renato Dulbecco (1975 Physiology or Medicine),

Harry Eagle Harry Eagle (July 13, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an American physician and pathologist. He was born in New York City then studied, and later worked, at Johns Hopkins University before moving on to the National Institutes of Health. From 1961 to 1 ...

, Theodore T. Puck *1974

Boris Ephrussi Boris Ephrussi (russian: Борис Самойлович Эфрусси; 9 May 1901 – 2 May 1979), Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo- French geneticist. Boris was born on 9 May 1901 into a Jewish family. His father, ...

*1975 K. Sune D. Bergstrom (1982 Physiology or Medicine),

Bengt Samuelsson Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born 21 May 1934) is a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Education a ...

(1982 Physiology or Medicine) *1976 Seymour Benzer, Charles Yanofsky *1977 Michael Heidelberger, Elvin A. Kabat, Henry G. Kunkel *1978

David Hubel David Hunter Hubel (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was a Canadian American neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Priz ...

(1981 Physiology of Medicine),

Vernon Mountcastle Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral co ...

Torsten Wiesel Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was ...

(1981 Physiology or Medicine) *1979

Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate. Education and early life Walter Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932, the son of Emma (Cohen), a c ...

(1980 Chemistry), Frederick Sanger (1980 Chemistry) *1980 César Milstein (1984 Physiology or Medicine) *1981 Aaron Klug (1982 Chemistry) *1982 Barbara McClintock (1983 Physiology or Medicine), Susumu Tonegawa (1987 Physiology or Medicine) *1983 Stanley Cohen (1986 Physiology or Medicine), Viktor Hamburger,

Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini (, ; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for th ...

(1986 Physiology or Medicine) *1984 Michael S. Brown (1985 Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Physiology or Medicine) *1985 Donald D. Brown,

Mark Ptashne Mark Ptashne (born June 5, 1940, in Chicago) is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Ptashne grew up in Chicago. He earned his undergraduate degree at Re ...

*1986 Erwin Neher (1991 Physiology or Medicine), Bert Sakmann (1991 Physiology or Medicine) *1987 Günter Blobel (1999 Physiology or Medicine) *1988 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Chemistry),

Philip A. Sharp Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and Molecular biology, molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery th ...

(1993 Physiology or Medicine) *1989 Alfred G. Gilman (1994 Physiology or Medicine), Edwin G. Krebs (1994 Physiology or Medicine) *1990 Stephen C. Harrison, Michael G. Rossmann, Don C. Wiley *1991 Richard R. Ernst (1991 Chemistry),

Kurt Wüthrich Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules. Education and ...

(2001 Chemistry) *1992

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. N� ...

(1995 Physiology or Medicine), Edward B. Lewis (1995 Physiology or Medicine) *1993 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Donald Metcalf *1994 Philippa Marrack, John W. Kappler *1995

Leland H. Hartwell Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wit ...

(2001 Physiology or Medicine) *1996 Clay M. Armstrong, Bertil Hille *1997 Stanley B. Prusiner (1997 Physiology or Medicine) *1998 Arnold J. Levine,

Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. A pi ...

*1999 Pierre Chambon, Robert Roeder, Robert Tjian *2000

H. Robert Horvitz Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM (born May 8, 1947) is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm ''Caenorhabditis elegans'', for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, t ...

(2002 Physiology or Medicine), Stanley J. Korsmeyer *2001

Avram Hershko Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Biography He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karc ...

(2004 Chemistry),

Alexander Varshavsky Alexander Jacob Varshavsky (russian: link=no, Александр Яковлевич Варшавский; born 8 November 1946) is a Russian-American biochemist, noted for his discovery of the N-end rule of ubiquitination. A native of Moscow, he ...

*2002 James E. Rothman (2013 Physiology or Medicine), Randy W. Schekman (2013 Physiology or Medicine) *2003

Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon (born February 19, 1956) is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter ...

(2003 Chemistry) *2004 Tony Hunter, Tony Pawson *2005

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular ...

(2009 Chemistry) *2006 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Chemistry) *2007 Joseph G. Gall, Elizabeth H. Blackburn (2009 Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Physiology or Medicine) *2008 F. Ulrich Hartl, Arthur Horwich and Honorary Horwitz Prize to Rosalind Franklin *2009 Victor R. Ambros,

Gary Ruvkun Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which ''lin-4'', th ...

*2010 Thomas J. Kelly, Bruce Stillman *2011 Jeffrey C. Hall (2017 Physiology or Medicine),

Michael Rosbash Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the ...

(2017 Physiology or Medicine), Michael W. Young (2017 Physiology or Medicine) *2012 Richard Losick, Joe Lutkenhaus,

Lucy Shapiro Lucy Shapiro (born July 16, 1940, New York City) is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Res ...

*2013 Edvard I. Moser (2014 Physiology or Medicine), May-Britt Moser (2014 Physiology or Medicine), John O’Keefe (2014 Physiology or Medicine) *2014

James P. Allison James Patrick Allison (born August 7, 1948) is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the Uni ...

(2018 Physiology or Medicine) *2015 S. Lawrence Zipursky *2016 Howard Cedar, Aharon Razin, *2017 Jeffrey I. Gordon *2018 Pierre Chambon,

Ronald M. Evans Ronald Mark Evans (born April 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Biologist, Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute fo ...

, Bert O’Malley *2019 Lewis C. Cantley, David M. Sabatini, Peter K. Vogt *2020 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth, Christine Petit *2021 Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman *2022

Karl Deisseroth Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technolo ...

Peter Hegemann Peter Hegemann (born 11 December 1954) is a Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and a Professor of Experimental Biophysics at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is known ...

, Gero MiesenböckLaureates 2022
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