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Howard Cedar
Howard Cedar in 2016
Born	Howard Chaim Cedar (1943-01-12) January 12, 1943 (age 81) New York City, U.S.
Nationality	Israeli American
Alma mater	New York University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spouse	Zipora
Children	6 (including Joseph)
Awards	Gairdner Prize (2011) EMET Prize (2009) Wolf Prize in Medicine (2008) Israel Prize (1999) Rothschild Prize (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular Biology
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral students	Eva Jablonka

Howard Chaim Cedar (Hebrew: חיים סידר; born January 12, 1943) is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off.

Biography

Howard Chaim Cedar was born in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and, in 1970, received an M.D. and a PhD from New York University.^[1] He is married to Zipora, a psychodramatist, and has six children, Joseph (a film writer and director), Dahlia, Noa, Yoav, Yonatan and Daniel, and 24 grandchildren.

Medical research career

From 1971 to 1973 he was in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.^[1]

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).^[2]

Awards and recognition

In 1999, Cedar was awarded the Israel Prize, for biology.^[3]
In 2003, he became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
In 2008, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with Aharon Razin, "for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of DNA methylation in the control of gene expression."^[4]
In 2009, he was awarded the EMET Prize for his work in cancer research.^[5]
In 2011 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award, together with Aharon Razin for their "pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression."
In 2011 he received the Rothschild Prize in Biology
In 2016 he received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize together with Aharon Razin and Gary Felsenfeld.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Fall 2021/Winter 2022".
^ "Prof. Howard Cedar | imric.org". Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)". Archived from the original on 2011-09-21.
^ The Wolf Prize in Medicine Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

v t e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Medicine
1970s	George Snell / Jean Dausset / Jon J. van Rood (1978) Roger Sperry / Arvid Carlsson / Oleh Hornykiewicz (1979)
1980s	César Milstein / Leo Sachs / James L. Gowans (1980) Barbara McClintock / Stanley Norman Cohen (1981) Jean-Pierre Changeux / Solomon H. Snyder / James W. Black (1982) Donald F. Steiner (1984/5) Osamu Hayaishi (1986) Pedro Cuatrecasas / Meir Wilchek (1987) Henri G. Hers / Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1988) John Gurdon / Edward B. Lewis (1989)
1990s	Maclyn McCarty (1990) Seymour Benzer (1991) Judah Folkman (1992) Michael Berridge / Yasutomi Nishizuka (1994/5) Stanley B. Prusiner (1995/6) Mary F. Lyon (1996/7) Michael Sela / Ruth Arnon (1998) Eric Kandel (1999)
2000s	Avram Hershko / Alexander Varshavsky (2001) Ralph L. Brinster / Mario Capecchi / Oliver Smithies (2002/3) Robert Weinberg / Roger Y. Tsien (2004) Alexander Levitzki / Anthony R. Hunter / Tony Pawson (2005) Howard Cedar / Aharon Razin (2008)
2010s	Axel Ullrich (2010) Shinya Yamanaka / Rudolf Jaenisch (2011) Ronald M. Evans (2012) Nahum Sonenberg / Gary Ruvkun / Victor Ambros (2014) John Kappler / Philippa Marrack / Jeffrey V. Ravetch (2015) Lewis C. Cantley / C. Ronald Kahn (2016) James P. Allison (2017) Jeffrey M. Friedman (2019)
2020s	Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer Doudna (2020) Joan Steitz / Lynne Elizabeth Maquat / Adrian Krainer (2021) Daniel J. Drucker (2023) Botond Roska / José-Alain Sahel (2024)

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Biography

Medical research career

Awards and recognition

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