Howard Cedar
Howard Cedar (born January 12, 1943 in New York City ) is an American - Israeli molecular biologist and geneticist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
Cedar gained fundamental insights into the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation .
Life
Cedar earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and a combined MD and Ph.D. at New York University , where he also initially worked in the pathology department as an assistant doctor. He then worked as a research assistant to James H. Schwartz and Eric R. Kandel at the Public Health Research Institute in New York before moving to Gary Felsenfeld at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1971 .
In 1973 Cedar emigrated to Israel . Since that year Cedar has worked in the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , first as a lecturer , then as a senior lecturer and associate professor , and finally as a full professor. Since 2013 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .
His son, Joseph Cedar , is a film director.
Awards (selection)
- 1999 Israel Prize in Biology
- 2003 membership in the Israel Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Wolf Prize in Medicine (with Aharon Razin )
- 2009 EMET Prize (with Aharon Razin )
- 2011 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate from Ben Gurion University in the Negev
- 2012 Rothschild Prize
- 2016 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Web links
- The Curiosity Gene: Prof. Howard Cedar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (huji.ac.il); Retrieved September 14, 2012
- CV (PDF, 45 kB) from the Israel Academy of Sciences (academy.ac.il); accessed on February 23, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2013
- ^ NYU Alumni Magazine: Howard Cedar, Methylation Man at nyu.edu; Retrieved March 3, 2011
- ↑ פרופ 'חיים סידר. In: academy.ac.il. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
- ^ Howard Cedar Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2008 at wolffund.org.il; Retrieved September 14, 2012
- ^ Howard Cedar, MD, Ph.D. at gairdner.org; Retrieved December 6, 2012
- ↑ Prof. Howard Cedar receives The 2012 Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences and a 2012 Honorary Doctorate from The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (huji.ac.il); Retrieved September 14, 2012
- ^ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cedar, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cedar, Chaim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-Israeli molecular biologist and geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |