The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize is to honor a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contributions to knowledge in fields of biology or biochemistry are deemed worthy of special recognition.

2025 Horwitz Prize Recipients

Columbia University announces Kevin Campbell, Louis Kunkel, and Eric Olson as the 2025 recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. For more information, please read the announcement from the CUIMC Newsroom. 

Kevin Campbell, PhD

Roy J. Carver Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics 
University of Iowa 

Kevin Campbell, PhD, received his BS in physics from Manhattan College and his PhD in biophysics from the University of Rochester. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto before becoming an assistant professor at the University of Iowa in 1981. Campbell is currently Roy J. Carver Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Center at the University of Iowa, and an investigator emeritus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Louis Kunkel, PhD

Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics 
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Louis Kunkel, PhD, received his BA from Gettysburg College and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco before joining Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow. He was appointed an instructor in 1982, and then an associate professor. Kunkel is now a professor of genetics and pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and an investigator emeritus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Eric Olson, PhD

Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research, Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects, and Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Eric Olson, PhD, received his BA and PhD from Wake Forest University. After postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis, he joined the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as an assistant professor in 1984. In 1995, Olson founded the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he is the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science, the Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research and the Pogue Distinguished Chair.