Howard Cedar


Howard Cedar is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off.

Biography

Howard Chaim Cedar was born in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, in 1970, received an MD and PhD from New York University.He is married to Zipora, a psychodramtist, and has six children, Joseph, Dahlia, Noa, Yoav, Yonatan and Daniel, and 21 grandchildren. Joseph Cedar is a film writer and director.

Medical research career

From 1971 to 1973 he was in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 1973 he joined the medical school of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and now serves as professor emeritus in the Department for Developmental Biology & Cancer Research, The Institute For Medical Research, Israel-Canada.

Awards and recognition