Richard Losick

Richard Losick
Born	1943
Education	Princeton University, MIT
Known for	Investigating endospore formation in Gram positive organisms
Awards	National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Microbiology, American Philosophical Society, Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular Biology
Institutions	Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Richard Marc Losick (/ˈloʊsɪk/ LOH-sik;^[1] born 1943) is an American molecular biologist. He is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University^[2] and a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[3] He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.