Pierre Chambon receives 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

The 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded by Columbia University to Pierre Chambon, Ronald M. Evans, and Bert W. O’Malley “for their discoveries of how steroid hormones regulate the behavior of distant cells” that have transformed our understanding of human physiology and disease over the last five decades. The prize is conferred in recognition of the work of a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contributions to knowledge in biology or biochemistry are deemed worthy of special recognition. It was awarded at a special presentation event on 29 October 2018.

Professor Pierre Chambon holds a Chair of Molecular Genetics and Biology at USIAS. A renowned figure of Strasbourg University, he is now in active retirement, but remains co-director of a research team at the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology (IGBMC), institute of which he was the founding director. He was also a recipient of the 1999 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for his work in understanding the transcription of genetic material into messenger RNA.

For more information, see the Louisa Horwitz Gross webpage.