David Ish-Horowicz

British scientist (1948–2024)

David Ish-Horowicz, FRS (2 August 1948 – 19 July 2024) was a British scientist. He was latterly a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London (from 2013).^[1] Between 1987 and 2013, he was a Principal Scientist and Head of the Developmental Genetics Laboratory at Cancer Research UK^[2] (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 ^[3] and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2007.^[4] He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.^[5] Ish-Horowicz was a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization from 1985.^{[citation needed]}

Background

Ish-Horowicz was born on 2 August 1948.^[6] His father was Moshe Ish-Horowicz (1916–2008), a prominent leader in the development of Reform Judaism in Manchester.^[7]

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.^[8]

David Ish-Horowicz died from a brain tumour at his home in Oxford, on 19 July 2024, at the age of 75.^[9]^[10]

References

^ "Iris Message".
^ "Cancer protein 'can be disarmed'". BBC News. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". Times Higher Education. 17 May 2002. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
^ "Waddington Medal - British Society for Developmental Biology". Retrieved 31 March 2010.
^ List of Members Archived 2015-08-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
^ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
^ Obituary in The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
^ Rubinstein, William D., The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (p. 457)
^ Ish-Horowicz, Jonathan (1 September 2024). "David Ish-Horowicz obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
^ "David Ish-Horowicz FRS, 1948–2024". The Francis Crick Institute. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.