Richard Losick

Richard Losick
Born1943 (age 82–83)
EducationPrinceton University, MIT
Known forInvestigating endospore formation in Gram positive organisms
AwardsNational 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
FieldsMolecular Biology
InstitutionsHarvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Richard Pero Losick (/ˈloʊsɪk/ LOH-sik; born 1943) is an American molecular biologist. He is the Emeritus Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University and was from 2002 to 2024 a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.

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