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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is comprised of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Members and foreign associates are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. 133 Rockefeller University scientists have been recognized as members or foreign associates of The National Academy of Sciences.

Current Faculty and Emeriti

Paul Bieniasz
2024 National Academy of Sciences
Bieniasz studies the biology and evolution of viruses, including HIV-1 and coronaviruses, and host-virus interactions.
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Luciano Marraffini
2019 National Academy of Sciences
Marraffini investigates how bacteria acquire immunity to viruses via CRISPR-Cas systems.
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Jue Chen
2019 National Academy of Sciences
Chen investigates the structure and function of transporter proteins in the cell membrane.
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Mary E. Hatten
2017 National Academy of Sciences
Hatten investigates mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and migration during embryonic development.
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Nathaniel Heintz
2016 National Academy of Sciences
Heintz investigates histological and functional aspects of the mammalian brain in health and disease.
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Stanislas Leibler
2016 National Academy of Sciences
Leibler conducts quantitative studies of interacting biological systems on molecular, cellular, and ecological levels.
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Jean-Laurent Casanova
2015 National Academy of Sciences
Casanova tests the hypothesis that life-threatening disease during primary infection results from inborn errors of immunity.
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Leslie B. Vosshall
2015 National Academy of Sciences
Vosshall investigates how sensory stimuli are perceived and processed.
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Robert B. Darnell
2014 National Academy of Sciences
Darnell studies RNA regulation in autoimmunity, neurological disease, and cancer.
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Michel C. Nussenzweig
2011 National Academy of Sciences
Nussenzweig studies the molecular aspects of adaptive and innate immune responses with a focus on HIV-1.
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Eric D. Siggia
2009 National Academy of Sciences
Siggia studies developmental biology using stem cells on micropatterned substrates.
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Seth A. Darst
2008 National Academy of Sciences
Darst investigates the structure, function, and regulation of the bacterial transcription cycle.
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Michael W. Young
2007 National Academy of Sciences
Young focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms in the fruit fly.
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Albert J. Libchaber
2007 National Academy of Sciences
Libchaber studies mathematical patterns in biological systems, applying nonlinear dynamics to the interactive relationships between organisms and their environments.
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Jeffrey V. Ravetch
2006 National Academy of Sciences
Ravetch studies the interactions between antibodies and immune cells’ Fc receptors to better understand and treat disease.
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Titia de Lange
2006 National Academy of Sciences
Lange studies how telomeres protect chromosome ends from the DNA damage response and the role of telomeres in cancer.
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Michael O'Donnell
2006 National Academy of Sciences
O'Donnell studies the molecular mechanisms of DNA replication, recombination, and repair.
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Charles D. Gilbert
2006 National Academy of Sciences
Gilbert studies neural mechanisms of visual perception, learning, and memory.
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Charles M. Rice
2005 National Academy of Sciences
Rice studies pathogenic viruses and innate antiviral immune mechanisms.
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Cori Bargmann
2003 National Academy of Sciences
Bargmann studies the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in C. elegans.
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Barry S. Coller
2003 National Academy of Sciences
Coller investigates the role of blood platelets and the mechanisms of blood cell adhesion in vascular disease.
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Jeffrey M. Friedman
2001 National Academy of Sciences
Freiwald studies how the brain processes visual cues from faces to better understand perception and social cognition.
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Richard P. Lifton
2001 National Academy of Sciences
Lifton uses large-scale genetics and genomics to identify mutations underlying human disease and their biochemical mechanisms.
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Roderick MacKinnon
2000 National Academy of Sciences
MacKinnon studies principles underlying biological electricity, particularly the passage of ions across cell membranes.
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Joel E. Cohen
1997 National Academy of Sciences
Cohen investigates the structure and function of transporter proteins in the cell membrane.
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Elaine Fuchs
1996 National Academy of Sciences
Fuchs studies the mechanisms underlying how stem cells make and repair tissues and deviate in stress, aging, and cancer.
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Paul Nurse
1995 National Academy of Sciences
Nurse investigates the molecular mechanisms of cell reproduction, cell growth, and cell form.
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Jan L. Breslow
1995 National Academy of Sciences
Breslow investigates the genetic and environmental bases of atherosclerotic disease.
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Donald W. Pfaff
1994 National Academy of Sciences
Pfaff studies steroid hormones' effects on the brain and behavior, and arousal of the central nervous system.
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A. James Hudspeth
1991 National Academy of Sciences
Hudspeth studies the neural mechanisms of hearing and pursues treatments for hearing loss.
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Robert G. Roeder
1988 National Academy of Sciences
Roeder studies the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in cell differentiation, homeostasis, and cancer.
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Fernando Nottebohm
1988 National Academy of Sciences
Nottebohm studies the origin and evolution of ideas.
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Torsten N. Wiesel
1980 National Academy of Sciences
Wiesel focuses on the organization and development of the central nervous system, using the visual system as a model for mechanisms that apply to the brain as a whole.
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James E. Darnell Jr.
1973 National Academy of Sciences
Darnell made numerous discoveries related to gene expression in animal cells.
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About the National Academy of Sciences

Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is a well-known honor bestowed upon exceptional scientists conducting original research in their field. No more than 84 new members and 21 foreign associated are elected annually.

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Past Faculty

2005
C. David Allis
2005
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
2001
Ralph M. Steinman
1997
Bruce S. McEwen
1991
Anthony Cerami
1991
Arnold J. Levine
1988
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
1987
Emil C. Gotschlich
1987
Emil Thomas Kaiser
1985
Hidesaburo Hanafusa
1984
David Luck
1984
Marilyn G. Farquhar
1984
James Glimm
1983
Gunter Blobel
1982
Gian-Carlo Rota
1980
Henry P. McKean Jr.
1980
George E. Palade
1978
Paul Greengard
1977
Purnell Choppin
1977
Richard M. Krause
1975
Igor Tamm
1975
Philip Siekevitz
1975
Zanvil A. Cohn
1975
Merrill W. Chase
1975
Kenneth M. Case
1975
Christian de Duve
1974
David Baltimore
1973
William Trager
1973
Edward H. Ahrens Jr.
1972
Rodney L. Cool
1972
Alexander G. Bearn
1972
James G. Hirsch
1972
R. Bruce Merrifield
1972
Vincent P. Dole
1971
Peter Marler
1970
Rebecca C. Lancefield
1969
Norton D. Zinder
1969
Gerald M. Edelman
1967
Moses Kunitz
1967
Henry G. Kunkel
1966
Floyd Ratliff
1966
Philip Levine
1965
Mark Kac
1965
Sam Granick
1964
Keith Porter
1963
William K. Estes
1963
Maclyn McCarty
1962
Abraham Pais
1961
Rollin D. Hotchkiss
1960
Donald R. Griffin
1960
Armin C. Braun
1960
William H. Stein
1960
Stanford Moore
1959
Carl Pfaffmann
1959
Frank Brink Jr.
1958
Walther F. Goebel
1958
Neal E. Miller
1957
Joshua Lederberg
1955
George E. Uhlenbeck
1954
Alfred E. Mirksy
1953
Theodore Shedlovsky
1953
David P.C. Lloyd
1953
Frank L. Horsfall Jr.
1952
D. Wayne Woolley
1952
Philip D. McMaster
1952
Edward L. Tatum
1951
Frederick Seitz
1950
Rafael Lorente de Nó
1950
Fritz A. Lipmann
1950
Lyman C. Craig
1948
H. Keffer Hartline
1947
Lewis G. Longsworth
1947
Paul A. Weiss
1943
Leonor Michaelis
1943
Theodosius Dobzhansky
1941
Wendell M. Stanley
1941
René Dubos
1940
James B. Murphy
1940
Richard E. Shope
1939
Detlev W. Bronk
1937
Duncan A. Macinnes
1934
Thomas M. Rivers
1934
Herbert S. Gasser
1934
John H. Northrop
1933
Oswald T. Avery
1932
Louis O. Kunkel
1932
Walter A. Jacobs
1932
Karl Landsteiner
1927
Peyton Rous
1925
Florence R. Sabin
1923
Eugene L. Opie
1922
Rufus Cole
1921
Donald D. Van Slyke
1919
W.J.V. Osterhout
1916
P.A.T. Levene
1912
Samuel J. Meltzer
1910
Jacques Loeb
1908
Theobald Smith
1908
Simon Flexner