Ira Herskowitz

Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American phage and yeast geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular differentiation, largely using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

Ira Herskowitz
Born14 July 1946 
Died28 April 2003  (aged 56)
Alma mater
OccupationGeneticist 
Employer
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • University of Oregon 
Awards
  • MacArthur Fellows Program (1987)
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2002)
  • NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (For his incisive reviews of phage biology, both literary and pictorial, that have focused and enlivened their subject for practitioners and spectators alike., 1985)
  • Rosenstiel Award (2002)
  • Mendel Medal (1991)
  • Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1992) 
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