Howard Cedar#
| Membership Number: | 3056 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://imric.org/research/researchers/prof-howard-cedar |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1973 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor of Molecular Biology, Hebrew University Medical School
- 1970 - 1973, U.S. Army’s Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
- 1971 - 1973 Research Associate, USPHS, National Institutes of Health, in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Felsenfeld
- 1970 - 1971 Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, in the laboratory of Drs. James H. Schwartz and Eric R. Kandel
- 1970 - 1971 Intern, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine
Fields of Scholarship
- Biochemistry
- Molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Hestrin Prize for Biochemistry
- 1982 Member European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1987 Israel Cancer Research Fund Professorship
- 1991 Hebrew University Outstanding Investigator
- 1999 Israel Prize in Biology
- 2003 Member Israel Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 2009 Safra Distinguished Professor
- 2009 Emet Prize in Medicine
- 2011 Gairdner International Award
