Howard Chaim 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
Howard Chaim Cedar

(1943-01-12) January 12, 1943 (age 81)
NationalityIsraeli American
Alma materNew York University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SpouseZipora
Children6 (including Joseph)
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

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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 M.D. and a PhD from New York University.[1] He is married to Zipora, a psychodramatist, and has six children, Joseph (a film writer and director), Dahlia, Noa, Yoav, Yonatan and Daniel, and 24 grandchildren.

Medical research career

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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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Fall 2021/Winter 2022".
  2. ^ "Prof. Howard Cedar | imric.org". Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize