Ira Herskowitz

Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz
Born	July 14, 1946
Died	April 28, 2003 (aged 56)
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ;
Occupation	Geneticist
Employer	University of California, San Francisco; University of Oregon ;
Awards	MacArthur Fellows Program (1987); Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2002); NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (For his incisive reviews of phage biology, both literary and pictorial, that have focused and enlivened their subject for practitioners and spectators alike., 1985); Rosenstiel Award (2002); Mendel Medal (1991); Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1992) ;

Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American phage and yeast geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular differentiation, largely using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.