David Ish-Horowicz
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates David Ish-Horowicz, FRS (2 August 1948 – 19 July 2024)[1] was a British scientist. He was latterly a professor of cell and developmental biology at University College London (from 2013).[2] Between 1987 and 2013, he was a principal scientist and head of the Developmental Genetics Laboratory at Cancer Research UK[3] (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 [4] and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2007.[5] He was a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.[6] Ish-Horowicz was a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization from 1985.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Background
Ish-Horowicz was born on 2 August 1948.[7] His father was Moshe Ish-Horowicz (1916–2008), a prominent leader in the development of Reform Judaism in Manchester.[8]
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 1969), and researched at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology while at Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD, 1973), and was a postdoctoral fellow in Basel.[9]
David Ish-Horowicz died from a brain tumour at his home in Oxford, on 19 July 2024, at the age of 75.[10][11]
References
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- ↑ Philip W. Ingham: David Ish-Horowicz (1948–2024). Current Biology, Vol. 34, Issue 20, 2024, p. R911-R913, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.001.
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- ↑ Obituary in The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 27 July 2015. Page not found 11 November 2024.
- ↑ Rubinstein, William D., The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (p. 457)
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