David Ish-Horowicz FRS (born 1948 d 19 July 2024) is a British scientist. He is currently a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London (since 2013).[1] Between 1987 and 2013, he was a Principal Scientist and Head of the Developmental Genetics Laboratory at Cancer Research UK[2] (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 [3] and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2007.[4] He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.[5] He has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1985.
His father was Moshe Ish-Horowicz (1916–2008), a prominent leader in the development of Reform Judaism in Manchester.[6]
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 1969), and researched at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology while at Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD, 1973), and was a postdoctoral fellow in Basel.[7]