Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Franz-Ulrich Hartl
Columbia University will award this year's Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Franz-Ulrich Hartl, M.D., professor and director of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry, on November 25, 2008. Hartl will be honored together with Arthur Horwich, Yale University School of Medicine, for their collaborative work in expanding fundamental understanding of cellular protein folding.
Columbia University will award this year's Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Franz-Ulrich Hartl, M.D., professor and director of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry on November 25, 2008. Professor Hartl will be honored together with Arthur Horwich, Yale University School of Medicine, for their collaborative work in expanding fundamental understanding of cellular protein folding, and its role in Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis and other life-threatening diseases.
The Honorary Horwitz Prize will be awarded to Rosalind Franklin, Ph.D., posthumously, for her role in the discovery of DNA’s structure. Since 1967, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded each year by Columbia University for outstanding basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
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