NYC mayor announces development of bioscience research park at Rockefeller University news conference
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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (left) and Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse.
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, at a news conference hosted by Rockefeller University on Nov. 18, 2004, announced plans to develop the East River Science Park, a bioscience research and development campus, on a city-owned portion of the Bellevue Hospital Center.
Prior to the announcement, Rockefeller University President and Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, Ph.D., gave Bloomberg and journalists a tour of his laboratory, where Bloomberg met with graduate students and postdoctoral researchers and participated in a video conference call with Nurse’s colleagues in London.
Nurse, a geneticist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the biological process by which cells make copies of themselves, presented Bloomberg with a Petri dish in which yeast cells spelled out the words “New York City.”
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