Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is named to honor his mother, Louisa Gross Horwitz, the daughter of trauma surgeon Samuel D. Gross. The prize was first awarded in 1967.
As of October 2024, 55 of the 117 prize recipients have subsequently been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Chemistry. It is regarded as one of the important precursors of a future Nobel Prize award.
Recipients
- 1967 Luis Leloir
- 1968 Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg
- 1969 Max Delbrück, Salvador E. Luria
- 1970 Albert Claude, George E. Palade, Keith R. Porter
- 1971 Hugh E. Huxley
- 1972 Stephen W. Kuffler
- 1973 Renato Dulbecco, Harry Eagle, Theodore T. Puck
- 1974 Boris Ephrussi
- 1975 K. Sune D. Bergstrom, Bengt Samuelsson
- 1976 Seymour Benzer, Charles Yanofsky
- 1977 Michael Heidelberger, Elvin A. Kabat, Henry G. Kunkel
- 1978 David Hubel, Vernon Mountcastle, Torsten Wiesel
- 1979 Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
- 1980 César Milstein
- 1981 Aaron Klug
- 1982 Barbara McClintock, Susumu Tonegawa
- 1983 Stanley Cohen, Viktor Hamburger, Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 1984 Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1985 Donald D. Brown, Mark Ptashne
- 1986 Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
- 1987 Günter Blobel
- 1988 Thomas R. Cech, Philip A. Sharp
- 1989 Alfred G. Gilman, Edwin G. Krebs
- 1990 Stephen C. Harrison, Michael G. Rossmann, Don C. Wiley
- 1991 Richard R. Ernst, Kurt Wüthrich
- 1992 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Edward B. Lewis
- 1993 Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Donald Metcalf
- 1994 Philippa Marrack, John W. Kappler
- 1995 Leland H. Hartwell
- 1996 Clay M. Armstrong, Bertil Hille
- 1997 Stanley B. Prusiner
- 1998 Arnold J. Levine, Bert Vogelstein
- 1999 Pierre Chambon, Robert Roeder, Robert Tjian
- 2000 H. Robert Horvitz, Stanley J. Korsmeyer
- 2001 Avram Hershko, Alexander Varshavsky
- 2002 James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
- 2003 Roderick MacKinnon
- 2004 Tony Hunter, Tony Pawson
- 2005 Ada Yonath
- 2006 Roger D. Kornberg
- 2007 Joseph G. Gall, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider
- 2008 F. Ulrich Hartl, Arthur Horwich and Honorary Horwitz Prize to Rosalind Franklin
- 2009 Victor R. Ambros, Gary Ruvkun
- 2010 Thomas J. Kelly, Bruce Stillman
- 2011 Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young
- 2012 Richard Losick, Joe Lutkenhaus, Lucy Shapiro
- 2013 Edvard I. Moser, May-Britt Moser, John O’Keefe
- 2014 James P. Allison
- 2015 S. Lawrence Zipursky
- 2016 Howard Cedar, Aharon Razin, Gary Felsenfeld
- 2017 Jeffrey I. Gordon
- 2018 Pierre Chambon, Ronald M. Evans, Bert O’Malley
- 2019 Lewis C. Cantley, David M. Sabatini, Peter K. Vogt
- 2020 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth, Christine Petit
- 2021 Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman
- 2022 Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck
- 2023 Zhijian Chen, Glen Barber
- 2024 Scott D. Emr, Wesley I. Sundquist
- 2025 Kevin Campbell, Louis M. Kunkel, Eric N. Olson