H. Robert Horvitz

David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research

In 2002, Dr. H. Robert Horvitz received both the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Gruber Neuroscience Prize. He is the David H. Koch Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Neurobiologist (Neurology) and Geneticist (Medicine) at the Massachusetts General Hospital; and a Member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the MIT Center for Cancer Research.

Dr. Horvitz received S.B. degrees in Mathematics and in Economics from MIT in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. Horvitz became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at MIT in 1978 and became Associate Professor in 1981 and Professor in 1986. He was named Whitehead Professor of Biology in 1999 and David H. Koch Professor of Biology in 2000.

Dr. Horvitz has served on many editorial boards, visiting committees and advisory committees, and has received numerous awards and honors for his accomplishments. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, of the U.S. Institute of Medicine and of the American Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Microbiology.