David Ish-Horowicz
British scientist (1948–2024)
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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.[citation needed]
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]
