Skip to main content

Rockefeller University

News & Highlights > News
Awards and Honors

Daniel Kronauer chosen as a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences

Daniel Kronauer, head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution, has been named a 2015 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Given by the Pew Charitable Trusts, this award provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. Kronauer...
Campus News

Twenty-nine students receive doctorates at Rockefeller’s 57th Convocation

At its convocation ceremony on Thursday, June 11, Rockefeller University presented doctoral degrees to 29 students. In a tradition dating back to the university’s first commencement ceremony in 1959, doctoral candidates received their degrees from their mentors. In addition, Nicole Le Douarin,...
Science News

Research reveals key interaction that opens the channel into the cell’s nucleus

Cells have devised many structures for transporting molecular cargo across their protective borders, but the nuclear pore complex, with its flower-like, eight-fold symmetry, stands out. Monstrously large by cellular standards, as well as versatile, this elaborate portal controls access to and exi...
Awards and Honors

Luciano Marraffini selected as a Blavatnik National Award finalist

Luciano Marraffini, an assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology, has been named a finalist in the life sciences by the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the New York Academy of Sciences announced on May 20. Marraffini, who studies the CRISPR-Cas systems that en...
Awards and Honors

A. James Hudspeth elected to the American Philosophical Society

A. James Hudspeth, F.M. Kirby Professor and head of the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the biological sciences, the society has announced. The American Philosophical Society is an honorary society that elects new members each year w...

In the News - WSJ - River Campus

Major Donations Bolster Hospital, Medical Research   "Rockefeller University plans to announce a $100 million gift from the Kravis foundation to build a laboratory research building that will be the centerpiece of a 2-acre campus extension over FDR Drive from East 64th to East 68th. That building...
Campus News

The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation provides landmark gift of $100 Million to The Rockefeller University

New research center will help attract the best talent to make transformative discoveries Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of The Rockefeller University, today announced a leadership gift of $100 million from The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation to help create a new laboratory building t...
Awards and Honors

Gaby Maimon honored with a McKnight Scholar Award

Gaby Maimon, assistant professor at The Rockefeller University and head of the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, has received a McKnight Scholar Award for his research on the neuronal basis for behavior. Maimon and five other young scientists will each receive $75,000 per year for three y...

In the News - Forbes - Tessier-Lavigne

Genentech Brain Trust Leaves With $217 Million For New Startup To Fight Alzheimer's And Parkinson's   "Three former top researchers at Genentech, the legendary biotech that is now part of Roche Holding, have raised $217 million in venture capital to start a new company, Denali Therapeutics, focus...
Science News

Research shows how antibodies produce vaccine-like effect against tumors

The problem with traditional cancer treatments is that their effects don’t always last:  Stop the therapy and the disease may return. That’s why antibody therapy — which not only kills tumors, but also appears to train the body’s own defenses to recognize them — has such promise. New rese...
View
Previous
Next
View
Previous
Next