Nationality Israeli American Children Joseph Cedar Fields Molecular biology | Role Biochemist Name Howard Cedar | |
Alma mater New York UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology Notable awards Gairdner Prize (2011)EMET Prize (2009)Wolf Prize in Medicine (2008)Israel Prize (1999)Rothschild Prize (2012) Similar People Aharon Razin, Joseph Cedar, Adrian Bird | ||
Exclusive interview with prof howard cedar on son joseph cedar s win at cannes
Howard Cedar or Chaim Cedar (Hebrew: חיים סידר; born January 12, 1943) is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, the mechanism that turns genes on and off.
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- Exclusive interview with prof howard cedar on son joseph cedar s win at cannes
- Annotating the Genome Professor Howard Cedar
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- References
Annotating the Genome | Professor Howard Cedar
Biography
Cedar was born in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and, in 1970, received an MD and PhD from New York University.
From 1971 to 1973 he was in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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).
He is married to Zipora, a psychodramtist, and has six children, Joseph, Dahlia, Noa, Yoav, Yonatan and Daniel, and 21 grandchildren. Joseph Cedar is a film writer and director.