Prize Committee

Each year, the President of Columbia University in the City of New York appoints a selection committee from among the University Faculty. The selection is assisted by a panel of internationally known scientists distinguished in the fields of biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physiology.

The 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Committee includes:

	Andrew R. Marks, M.D., Chair Clyde'56 and Helen Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology (in Medicine); Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
	Virginia Cornish, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry
	Wayne A. Hendrickson, Ph. D. University Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
	Robert S. Kass, Ph. D. Hosack Professor of Pharmacology (in the Center for Neurology and Behavior) and Alumni Professor of Pharmacology; Chair, Department of Pharmacology
	James L. Manley, Ph.D. Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences
	Richard S. Mann, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior)
	Carol A. Mason, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
	Arthur Palmer, Ph.D. Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
	Ramon Parsons, M.D., Ph.D. Avon Foundation Professor of Pathology and Medicine (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
	James Rothman, Ph.D. Clyde'56 and Helen Wu Professor of Physiology (Chemical Biology) in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Director, Columbia University Genome Center