Arthur L. Horwich

Arthur L. Horwich
Born1951 (age 72–73)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
Known foruncovering chaperonin action
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Institutions
Notable studentsTapan K. Chaudhuri[1]

Arthur L. Horwich (born 1951) is an American biologist and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine.[2][3] Horwich has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1990.[4] His research into protein folding uncovered the action of chaperonins, protein complexes that assist the folding of other proteins; Horwich first published this work in 1989.[5][6]

For his scientific work Horwich has been awarded the Gairdner International Award (2004), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2008), Lasker Award (2011),[7] Shaw Prize (2012), Albany Medical Center Prize (2016), and Breakthrough Prize (2020). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Tapan K. Chahudhuri- Chaperone Mediated Protein Folding, Protein Engineering and Molecular Biophysics Group".
  2. ^ "Arthur L. Horwich". Yale School of Medicine. Archived from the original on May 30, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2008.
  3. ^ "Form leads to function". Yale School of Medicine. Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
  4. ^ "Arthur L. Horwich, M.D". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
  5. ^ Cheng, M.Y.; Hartl, F.U.; Martin, J.; Pollock, R. A.; Kalousek, F.; Neupert, W.; Hallberg, E. M.; Hallberg, R. L. & Horwich, A. L. (February 16, 1989). "Mitochondrial heat-shock protein hsp60 is essential for assembly of proteins imported into yeast mitochondria". Nature. 337 (6208): 620–625. Bibcode:1989Natur.337..620C. doi:10.1038/337620a0. PMID 2645524. S2CID 4333381.
  6. ^ Wang, Shirley S. (2009-09-14). "The Nobel Prize Will Go To..." Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2011-09-12). "Horwich Wins Lasker Award by Straddling Science and Medicine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. ^ Davis, Tinsley H. (2004-10-19). "Biography of Arthur L. Horwich". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (42): 15002–15004. doi:10.1073/pnas.0406924101. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 524080. PMID 15479759.
  9. ^ Hahamy, Madison (2021-05-04). "14 Yale faculty recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2022-02-11.