Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture

The 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize winners

From left, interim University President Katrina Armtrong, Rodney Rothstein, PhD, and 2024 Horwitz Prize winners Scott Emr, PhD, and Wesley Sundquist, PhD, February 2025. (Photo/A. Krusberg)

The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was established under the will of the late S. Gross Horwitz through a bequest to Columbia University and is named in honor of the donor's mother. Louisa Gross Horwitz was the daughter of prominent Philadelphia surgeon Samuel David Gross (1805–1889), who wrote the outstanding two volume work Systems of Surgery and served as president of the American Medical Association.

Each year since its inception in 1967, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded by Columbia University for outstanding basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. The purpose of this award is to honor a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contributions to knowledge in either of these fields are deemed worthy of special recognition.