The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
About the 2021 Horwitz Prize Recipients
Columbia University announces Katalin Karikó, PhD and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD as the 2021 recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. For more information please visit the announcement from the CUIMC Newsroom.
For more information, view our list of all past prize recipients.
Update as of 12/23/2021: The lectures and award presentation have been postponed and will be rescheduled. Event information will be shared when confirmed.
Honoree: Katalin Karikó, PhD
Senior Vice President, BioNTech SE
Adjunct Associate Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: "Developing mRNA for Therapy" will be held TBD.
Honoree: Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: "Nucleoside-Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics" will be held TBD.
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Award Presentation
Appreciation by David D. Ho, MD
Responses from Drs. Karikó and Weissman