Robert Horovitz

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Robert Horvitz, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine in 2001 for his work in programmed cell death. He received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University. Dr. Horvitz began his work with C. elegans in the 1970s, working with John Sulston. In the 1980s he was a biology professor at MIT, and it was there identified he the first "cell death" genes, called ced-3 and ced-4.

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The Wiley Foundation "The Wiley Foundation Jury". Retrieved July 11, 2010.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute "H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D. ". Retrieved July 11, 2010.

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