Richard Losick(1943)
Richard Pero Losick is an American molecular biologist. He is the Emeritus Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University and was from 2002 to 2024 a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.
United StatesHarvard University
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Major Awards
398
Publications
51,123
Citations
128
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Awards & Recognition
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Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisors
Robert TjianNicole King
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)
Top Publications
Stochastic antagonism between two proteins governs a bacterial cell fate switch
Science201966 citations
Noise in a phosphorelay drives stochastic entry into sporulation in
<i>Bacillus subtilis</i>
The EMBO Journal201750 citations
A widespread family of serine/threonine protein phosphatases shares a common regulatory switch with proteasomal proteases
eLife201741 citations
Use of a microfluidic platform to uncover basic features of energy and environmental stress responses in individual cells of Bacillus subtilis
PLOS Genetics201735 citations
A protein phosphorylation module patterns the
<i>Bacillus subtilis</i>
spore outer coat
Molecular Microbiology202031 citations
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
HZ
Huda Zoghbi
Horwitz Prize (2022)
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Andrew Z. Fire
Gairdner International Award (2008)
Craig C. Mello
Gairdner International Award (2008)
Sydney Brenner
Dan David Prize (2003)
Kary B. Mullis
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993)
Paul Berg
Gairdner International Award (1983)
Frederick Sanger
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
Greg Winter
Copley Medal (2025)
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