David Ish-Horowicz

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]

References

  1. ^ Philip W. Ingham: David Ish-Horowicz (1948–2024). Current Biology, Vol. 34, Issue 20, 2024, p. R911-R913, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.001.
  2. ^ "Iris Message".
  3. ^ "Cancer protein 'can be disarmed'". BBC News. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  4. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". Times Higher Education. 17 May 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  5. ^ "Waddington Medal - British Society for Developmental Biology". Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  6. ^ List of Members Archived 5 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  7. ^ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  8. ^ Obituary in The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 27 July 2015. Page not found 11 November 2024.
  9. ^ Rubinstein, William D., The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (p. 457)
  10. ^ Ish-Horowicz, Jonathan (1 September 2024). "David Ish-Horowicz obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  11. ^ "David Ish-Horowicz FRS, 1948–2024". The Francis Crick Institute. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.


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