Howard Cedar

Howard Cedar (Hebrew: חיים סידר; born January 12, 1943) is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off.

Howard Cedar
Howard Cedar in 2016
Born (1943-01-12) January 12, 1943
New York City, U.S.
NationalityIsraeli American
Alma materNew York University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsGairdner Prize (2011)
EMET Prize (2009)
Wolf Prize in Medicine (2008)
Israel Prize (1999)
Rothschild Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular Biology
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral studentsEva Jablonka

Biography

Howard Chaim Cedar was born in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and, in 1970, received an MD and PhD from New York University.[1]He is married to Zipora, a psychodramtist, and has six children, Joseph, Dahlia, Noa, Yoav, Yonatan and Daniel, and 21 grandchildren. Joseph Cedar is a film writer and director.

Medical research career

From 1971 to 1973 he was in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.[1]

In 1973 he joined the medical school of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and now serves as professor emeritus in the Department for Developmental Biology & Cancer Research, The Institute For Medical Research, Israel-Canada (IMRIC).[2]

Awards and recognition
  • In 1999, Cedar was awarded the Israel Prize, for biology.[3]
  • In 2003, be became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • In 2008, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with Aharon Razin, "for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of DNA methylation in the control of gene expression."[4]
  • In 2009, he was awarded the EMET Prize for his work in cancer research.[5]
  • In 2011 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award, together with Aharon Razin for their "pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression."
  • In 2011 he received the Rothschild Prize in Biology
  • In 2016 he received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize together with Aharon Razin and Gary Felsenfeld.[6]

See also

References
  3. "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)". Archived from the original on 2011-09-21.
  4. The Wolf Prize in Medicine Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
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