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Cori Bargmann, Titia de Lange win inaugural Breakthrough Prizes worth $3 million
Two Rockefeller University scientists are among 11 winners of the first annual Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, an award established by six tech entrepreneurs dedicated to advancing breakthrough research. At $3 million each, the prizes are worth more than twice the amount of the Nobel. Cori B...
David Allis awarded $1 million grant from Starr Cancer Consortium
C. David Allis, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics at Rockefeller, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Starr Cancer Consortium. Allis leads one of five cancer research teams from the New York City based members of the consortium...
Jeff Friedman to receive King Faisal and BBVA prizes
Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, will be the recipient of two international scientific awards announced this week. The King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, from the Saudi Arabian King Faisal Foundation, and the BBVA Fr...
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences awarded to Mike Young and colleagues
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, has been awarded the twelfth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences along with his colleagues, Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University. The researchers are being honored for their disc...
Charles M. Rice awarded Dautrebande Prize
Charles M. Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, has been given the Prize of Pathophysiology Professor Lucien Dautrebande from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine for his description of the molecular and ce...
Elaine Fuchs awarded distinguished medal from New York Academy of Medicine
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, will be awarded the 2012 Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science from the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), for her innovati...
Rockefeller fellow receives NIH ‘early independence award’ to study immune responses with high throughput sequencing
Brad Rosenberg, who completed his M.D.-Ph.D. through the Tri-Institutional program in May, is one of 14 early-career investigators across the country to receive an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, which will allow him to establish his own research program at Rockefeller. He has been named...
Shai Shaham and Sean Brady receive promotions
Two Rockefeller faculty members have received promotions, both of which were approved by the Board at its June 7 meeting. Shai Shaham, head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University, has been awarded tenure and promoted to professor; Sean Brady, head of the Laborat...
Jeffrey M. Friedman awarded 11th IPSEN Endocrine Regulation Prize
The Fondation IPSEN has awarded its 11th Endocrine Regulation Prize to Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, for his discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. The French foundation, whose mission is to...
Five Rockefeller scientists receive high risk-high reward NIH grants
An unprecedented number of Rockefeller University faculty have been awarded prestigious five-year grants under the High Risk High Reward program supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. Robert B. Darnell and Thomas Tuschl are each receiving a 2012 NIH Director’s Transformative ...
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