Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz, the David H. Koch professor of cancer biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, was the winner of the 2006–2007 James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. The Horvitz laboratory has identified genes and proteins involved in the four-step genetic pathway of cell division and death, work that has potential for application in the treatment of human diseases. Read more about Professor Horvitz’s lecture at MIT News.

Read the 2006 citation by the Killian Award Selection Committee