Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, Keith A. Joiner, M.D., Elizabetta Ullu, Ph.D., Peter Cresswell, Ph.D.

Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, professor of genetics and pediatrics, received the 2001 Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society. The award honors his contribution of unusual merit to basic research in the field of protein science. Horwich has examined the mitochondrial “machinery” that recognizes and translocates precursor proteins and, in a genetic screen in yeast, uncovered Hsp60 (the yeast homologue of GroEL) as essential for folding newly imported proteins. This led to his studies in the last 10 years on chaperonin-mediated protein folding. Horwich is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He received a National Research Service Award and previously was named an outstanding young investigator by the Society for Pediatric Research. He has been on the faculty at Yale since 1984.

In August, the Ellison Medical Foundation announced the Senior Scholar Awardees in Global Infectious Diseases for 2001. Three members of the Yale faculty were among the recipients. Keith A. Joiner, M.D., section chief and Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (infectious diseases), epidemiology and cell biology, and Elizabetta Ullu, Ph.D., professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and cell biology, were honored for their research, “Development of New Genetic Tools To Identify Nutrient Uptake Pathways in Malaria Parasites.” HHMI investigator Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology, biology and dermatology, was honored for his research entitled “Antiviral Effects of Interferon-Inducible Cytosolic Proteins.”