David Ish-Horowicz

{{Short description|British scientist (1948–2024)}}

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David Ish-Horowicz, FRS (2 August 1948 – 19 July 2024)Philip W. Ingham: David Ish-Horowicz (1948–2024). Current Biology, Vol. 34, Issue 20, 2024, p. R911-R913, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.001. was a British scientist. He was latterly a professor of cell and developmental biology at University College London (from 2013).{{Cite web|url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DISHH31|title=Iris Message}} Between 1987 and 2013, he was a principal scientist and head of the Developmental Genetics Laboratory at Cancer Research UK{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/8353229.stm|title=Cancer protein 'can be disarmed'|date=12 November 2009|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=31 March 2010}} (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 {{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=169134§ioncode=26|title=Fellows of the Royal Society|date=17 May 2002|magazine=Times Higher Education |accessdate=31 March 2010}} and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.bms.ed.ac.uk/services/webspace/bsdb/BSDBwaddington.htm|title=Waddington Medal - British Society for Developmental Biology|accessdate=31 March 2010}} He was a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.[http://www.lister-institute.org.uk/fellows/members/ List of Members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805033200/http://www.lister-institute.org.uk/fellows/members/ |date=5 August 2015}}. Retrieved 27 July 2015. Ish-Horowicz was a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization from 1985.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}