The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Honoring Outstanding Research in Biology or Biochemistry
![Katrina Armstrong, MD, CEO and Dean of CUIMC, presenting the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Katalin Karikó, PhD](http://www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_40_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=Qvuryz3t 40w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_200_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=5jVBHdCo 200w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_260_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=_fAZDsvg 260w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_320_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=9fC8HI02 320w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_400_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=ibTjabhu 400w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_520_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=yG-PYetM 520w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_640_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=cvaJJo8Q 640w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_800_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=AI7SttML 800w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_1040_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=HbGB9msA 1040w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_1280_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=OmWjl8_M 1280w, //www.compadukweb.com/sites/default/files/styles/cola_media_1600_3_1/public/media/images/2022-11/horwitz-2022-hero.jpg?itok=_CTCePWt 1600w)
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
路易莎总霍维茨奖是为了纪念三英洁具tific investigator or group of investigators whose contributions to knowledge in fields of biology or biochemistry are deemed worthy of special recognition.
2022 Horwitz Prize Recipients
Columbia University announces Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD; Peter Hegemann, PhD; and Gero Miesenböck, MD as the 2022 recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. For more information please read theannouncement from the CUIMC Newsroom.
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
生物工程教授,精神病学和性能变化oral Sciences
Stanford University, USA
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a professor of bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, USA. He is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Deisseroth received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and completed his PhD and MD from Stanford.
Peter Hegemann, PhD
Hertie Professor for Neuroscience
Institute of Biology and Experimental Biophysics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Peter Hegemann, PhD, is a Hertie Professor for Neuroscience at the Institute of Biology and Experimental Biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Hegemann completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Münster and LMU Munich, and received his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried.
Gero Miesenböck, MD
Waynflete Professor of Physiology
Director, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
University of Oxford, UK
Gero Miesenböck, MD, is the Waynflete Professor of Physiology and director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford, UK. Miesenböck completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and Umeå University in Sweden, and received his MD from the University of Innsbruck Medical School.
Past Prize Recipients
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View the winners of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, which is awarded by Columbia University to scientists for their outstanding basic research in biology or biochemistry.