NYC mayor announces development of bioscience research park at Rockefeller University news conference
COPY LINK
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.”
For more information about the East River Science Park, go to:
