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Horvitz, H. Robert - MSN Encarta (487 words) |
 | Horvitz, H. Robert, born in 1947, American geneticist and cowinner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of programmed cell death, the process in which healthy cells kill themselves as a normal part of an organism’s development. |
| Horvitz identified one gene that protects against cell death by interacting with other genes involved in the cell death process. |
| In 1988 Horvitz was appointed an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an organization, based in Chevy Chase, Maryland that supports the research of outstanding biomedical scientists at universities around the world. |
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