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Paul Nurse elected trustee of HHMI
Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has been elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a medical research organization dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge in the life sciences. HHMI announced Nurse’s election on December 14. Nurse, 56, is one of 1...
Two Rockefeller postdocs receive funding for research at the "scientific interface"
Two postdoctoral researchers at Rockefeller University, Nicolas E. Buchler and Edo L. Kussell, were awarded 2006 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, it was announced today. Buchler and Kussell each will receive $500,000 to foster their development and produ...
Bruce McEwen awarded Goldman-Rakic Prize
Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen has received the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the world’s largest donor-supported philanthropy devoted to the support of research on brain and behavioral disorders. Mc...
Immunologist Philippa Marrack to receive Rockefeller University’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The second annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international prize awarded by The Rockefeller University to an outstanding woman scientist, will be presented to immunologist Philippa Marrack on November 10. The prize, which was established by Rockefeller University Professor and Nobel l...
Margaret Hamburg elected to Rockefeller Board of Trustees
Rockefeller University’s Trustees have elected Margaret Hamburg, M.D., a former New York City Health Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and one of the youngest people ever elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, to serve on the university’s Board. “Peggy ...
Jeffrey Friedman elected to Institute of Medicine
Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey M. Friedman, a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, it was announced toda...
Torsten Wiesel receives Rall Medal for human rights work
Rockefeller University President Emeritus Torsten Wiesel received the Institute of Medicine’s David Rall Medal, it was announced today. The medal is awarded annually to an IOM member who has demonstrated particularly distinguished leadership as chair of a study committee or other activity, showin...
Titia de Lange receives NIH Pioneer Award
Rockefeller University’s Titia de Lange, Ph.D., is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, the NIH announced today. She will receive up to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years to fund research that will examine how cells respond to DNA damage. The...
Thomas Eisner to receive 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
A world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution, Thomas Eisner, has been chosen to receive The Rockefeller University’s 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Eisner will receive the prize, and give a lecture titled “The Ruling Class: Tales of Insect Survival,” on Tuesd...
York Avenue at 68th Street is named Mary Woodard Lasker Way
The block of York Avenue at 68th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which is adjacent to Rockefeller University’s campus, has been named Mary Woodard Lasker Way, in honor of the late champion of biomedical research. A new street sign, which hangs at the southeast corner of the intersection, ...
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