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.
Members of the 2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Committee are:
Laura Landweber, PhD, Chair
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences (in Systems Biology); Vice Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Henry Colecraft, PhD
- John C. Dalton Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Rui Costa, DVM, PhD
- Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology; Director and Chief Officer, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
- Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine; Professor, Pathology & Cell Biology, Genetics & Development, Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Institute for Cancer Genetics
Donna Farber, PhD
- George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences in Surgery; Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Sankar Ghosh, PhD
- Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology; Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Stephen Goff, PhD
- Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Microbiology and Immunology
Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr., PhD
- Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Stavros Lomvardas, PhD
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience(in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute); Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, Department Biochemistry/Molecular Biophysics
Carol Prives, PhD
- DaCosta Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences
Zhiguo Zhang, PhD
- Professor of Epigenomics and Molecular Biology (in Pediatrics, Genetics and Development and in the Institute of Cancer Genetics), Department of Pediatrics Oncology
