David Ish-Horowicz


David Ish-Horowicz FRS is a British scientist. He is currently a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. Between 1987 and 2013, he was a Principal Scientist and Head of the Developmental Genetics Laboratory at Cancer Research UK . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2007. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. He has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1985.

Family

His father was Moshe Ish-Horowicz, a prominent leader in the development of Reform Judaism in Manchester.

Education

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and researched at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology while at Darwin College, Cambridge, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Basle.