Losick awarded Horwitz Prize
Richard M. Losick, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard, has been named one of three winners of the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize by Columbia University in recognition of his work to understand the intricate, dynamic, and three-dimensional organization of bacterial cells. Losick shares this year’s prize with Joe Lutkenhaus, a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas Medical School, and Lucy Shapiro, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Chair in Cancer Research in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “The research of these three superb pioneers has led to major insights into the biochemistry and molecular biology of the living cell. It has helped establish the simple bacterial cell as one of the most powerful models for understanding the cycle of cell life and death,” said Gerard Karsenty, chair of the Horwitz Prize committee and chair of the Department of Genetics and...