Name Ira Herskowitz Role Molecular Geneticist | Awards MacArthur Fellowship | |
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Died April 28, 2003, San Francisco, California, United States Education California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
Ira herskowitz lambda and yeast gene regulation
Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American geneticist. He was noted for his work on cellular differentiation.
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He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in 1971. He taught at the University of Oregon. He moved to University of California, San Francisco in 1981, where he headed the Herskowitz lab.
He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2002, the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He died in San Francisco, California on April 28, 2003 of pancreatic cancer.
James D. Watson:
He was one of the people who made U.C.S.F. the most exciting place in the world for a younger scientist to be. A talk by Ira was always fun to listen to. And he approached science with a certain degree of idealism.