H. Robert Horvitz

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

Curriculum Vitae

H. Robert Horvitz, born May 8, 1947. Nationality: American
Address:	Department of Biology, Room 68-425, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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

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