Laureates on Exhibit

Last fall, Caspary Hall was witness to a unique gathering. Ten of Rockefeller University’s current faculty members who are winners of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award and/or the Nobel Prize came together to view the new exhibit in the lobby of Caspary Auditorium that gives a historical timeline of Rockefeller’s current and past Lasker and Nobel laureates. The scientists, whose awards stretch from 1974 to 2007, were recognized for wide-ranging achievements, from discoveries about how cells are organized to elucidation of how electrical signals are relayed in the nervous system to vaccine development for prevention of bacterial disease. The winners are (clockwise from top left):

Ralph M. Steinman, M.D.
2007 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Emil C. Gotschlich, M.D.
1978 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award

James E. Darnell Jr., M.D.
2002 Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D.
1993 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D.
1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Paul Greengard, Ph.D.
2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D.
2003 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Paul Nurse, Ph.D.
1998 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Christian de Duve, M.D.
1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine