Primary Job Title Professor of Biology Primary Organization Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Robert Horvitz is a member of MPM and OIF’s MSAB. For a decade he has served on the MPM’s MSAB and is its current Chairman. Bob joined the MIT Department of Biology faculty in 1978, and was named David Koch Professor of Biology in 2000. He was appointed a Member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in 2000 and a Member of the
McGovern Institute for Brain Research in 2001. Bob received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and characterizing genes that control programmed cell death (apoptosis), findings that have provided the basis for understanding many aspects of human biology and disease.
Bob is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience. He received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University.
