Horwitz Prize Committee
Each year, the President of Columbia University appoints a selection committee from among the University faculty, assisted by a panel of internationally known scientists distinguished in the fields of biology, chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology.
Henry Colecraft, PhD
- John C. Dalton Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Donna L. Farber, PhD
- Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences
- George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
- Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
- Principal Investigator, Columbia Center for Translational Immunology

Ruben L Gonzalez Jr, PhD
- Dean of Science of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Chair, Frontiers of Science, Department of Chemistry
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics

Laura Landweber, PhD
- Vice Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences (in Systems Biology)

Stavros Lomvardas, PhD
- Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Professor of Neuroscience
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute
- Principal Investigator at the Zuckerman Institute

Zhiguo Zhang, PhD
- Clyde’56 and Helen Wu Professor of Epigenomics and Molecular Biology (in Pediatrics, Genetics and Development and in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)









