The 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures

Columbia will award the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Drs. Scott D. Emr and Wesley I. Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works. Each awardee will present a lecture on February 5, 2025. See below for details. 

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Lecture 1

"The ESCRT Pathway: Molecular Machinery and Role in Receptor Down-Regulation and Membrane Protein Turnover”

presented by

Scott D. Emr, PhD

Scott D. Emr, PhD

Scott D. Emr, PhD

Nancy M. and Samuel C. Fleming Professor Emeritus 
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics 
Cornell University

Wednesday, February 5, 2024 at 10 a.m. 
The Forum at Columbia University
601 W. 125th St.
Please arrive with enough time to check in. Light refreshments will be available before and after the lecture. 

Biography

Scott Emr, PhD, is the Nancy M. and Samuel C. Fleming Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, USA. Emr received his BS degree in biology from the University of Rhode Island, USA, and completed his PhD in microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard University, USA. Emr has also held research positions at the California Institute of Technology, USA; the University of California, Berkeley, USA; the University of California, San Diego, USA; and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. He has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, European Molecular Biology Organization, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Lecture 2

“The Remarkable Plasticity of the Human ESCRT Pathway”

presented by

Wesley I. Sundquist, PhD

Wesley I. Sundquist, PhD

Wesley I. Sundquist, PhD

Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair 
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry 
University of Utah

Wednesday, February 5, 2024 at 3 p.m. 
Alumni Auditorium
650 W. 168th St., First Floor

Biography

Wesley Sundquist, PhD, is the Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah, USA. Sundquist completed his BA degree in chemistry at Carleton College, USA, and obtained his PhD degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Sundquist has also held research positions at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, USA. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

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