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Michael Young receives Gruber Foundation's 2009 Neuroscience Prize

Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University, has received the 2009 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, the foundation announced today. He shares the $500,000 prize with Jeffrey Hall, professor o...
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Genome-wide map shows precisely where microRNAs do their work

MicroRNAs are the newest kid on the genetic block. By regulating the unzipping of genetic information, these tiny molecules have set the scientific world alight with such wide-ranging applications as onions that can’t make you cry and therapeutic potential for new treatments for viral infections,...
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Jeffrey Friedman receives Shaw Prize for discovery of leptin

Jeffrey M. Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University, has received the 2009 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. The prize was announced today by the Hong Kong-based Shaw Prize Foundation. Friedman shares the $1 million a...
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Research identifies 3D structure of key nuclear pore building block

The genome of complex organisms is stashed away inside each cell’s nucleus, a little like a sovereign shielded from the threatening world outside. The genome cannot govern from its protective chamber, however, without knowing what’s going on in the realm beyond and having the ability to project ...
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Research identifies early childhood conditions that lead to adult health disparities

The origins of many adult diseases can be traced to early negative experiences associated with social class and other markers of disadvantage. Confronting the causes of adversity before and shortly after birth may be a promising way to improve adult health and reduce premature deaths, researchers...
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Misreading of histone code linked to human cancer

The development of blood from stem cell to fully formed blood cell follows a genetically determined program. When it works properly, blood formation stops when it reaches maturity. But when it doesn’t, genetic mutations can prevent the stop signal and cause the developing cells to turn cancerous....
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Genetic profiling reveals genes active in the earliest brain circuit construction

Long before the brain’s neurons can facilitate life’s big decisions, they have to find their own destiny in the rapidly developing embryo. In the lingo of neurobiologists, they are “fated” very early on to become certain types of cells, over time traveling to and organizing the various struc...
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Announcements

Convocation is June 11. With 41 graduates, the class of 2009 is Rockefeller’s largest yet. Due to the large number of graduates, this year’s Convocation has been divided into a morning presentation ceremony and an afternoon hooding ceremony. The schedule of events: 10 a.m. Presentation of Gradua...
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Alumna Agata Smogorzewska named to faculty

by THANIA BENIOS Agata Smogorzewska, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on DNA repair and on the molecular basis of Fanconi anemia, a genomic instability syndrome that leads to leukemia and other forms of cancer, is Rockefeller University’s newest faculty recruit. The 2002 Rockefeller a...
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Karen Booth to head Child and Family Center

by ZACH VEILLEUX Karen Booth, a teacher and administrator with over 35 years of experience in early childhood education, has been named director of the university’s Child and Family Center. She will take over the center’s operations this summer, replacing Marjorie Goldsmith, who is leaving afte...
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