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
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
- Director, Institute for Cancer Genetics
- Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetis and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
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
Sankar Ghosh, PhD
- Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Stephen Goff, PhD
- Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr., PhD
- Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
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
Carol Prives, PhD
- DaCosta Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences
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)
