2019 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures
David M. Sabatini, MD, PhD
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture #2
“mTOR and Lysosomes in the Regulation of Growth”
Thursday, January 9, 2020
12 p.m.
Jerome L. Greene Science Center
9th Floor Lecture Hall
3227 Broadway
Dr. Sabatini is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was born in New York City to Argentine immigrant parents and obtained his BA from Brown University and his MD/PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his thesis work in the lab of Solomon H. Snyder, where he discovered mTOR. In 1997 he began his independent lab at the Whitehead Institute as a Whitehead Fellow. In 2002 he became a member of the Whitehead Institute and the Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at MIT and senior associate member of the Broad Institute. He also joined the faculty of MIT. In 2008 he became an HHMI Investigator. Dr. Sabatini has received numerous honors, including the ASBMB Earl and Theresa Stadtman Scholar Award in 2009, Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2009, National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology in 2014, Lurie Prize and Dickson Prize in 2017, and Switzer Prize and Pius XI Medal in 2018. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Sabatini is also active in the clinical translation of his work and has co-founded several biotechnology companies in the Boston area.
