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Newly identified gene may prompt pancreas cells to form

Before a pancreas is a pancreas, it’s part of the endoderm, one of three layers of cells in a developing embryo that eventually form its organs. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now uncovered key genetic signals involved in how the pancreas begins forming, a finding they say might lead ...
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First Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes awarded to infectious disease experts

The inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes, named after Rockefeller University’s prominent early-20th-century bacteriologist, were awarded to Brian Greenwood and Miriam K. Were, the government of Japan announced yesterday. Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London Sc...
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New drug may help rescue the aging brain

As people age, their brains pay the price — inflammation goes up, levels of certain neurotransmitters go down, and the result is a plethora of ailments ranging from memory impairment and depression to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But in a long-term study with implications to treat these and ot...
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Three geneticists win 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

The fourth annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize has been awarded to Gail Martin of the University of California, San Francisco, Beatrice Mintz of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and Elizabeth Robertson of the University of Oxford. The award, created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding fem...

$4.5 million grant funds interdisciplinary fellowships at Rockefeller

The Leon Levy Foundation, a philanthropy created by the estate of former Rockefeller University trustee Leon Levy, cofounder of Oppenheimer and Company, has awarded a $4.5 million grant to the university to fund the Leon Levy Presidential Fellowships in Neuroscience. Designed to recruit young sci...
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Announcements

Employee recognition events scheduled. Human Resources will honor employees who reach major milestones with two events in April. The employee recognition reception, to recognize employees who have worked at The Rockefeller University for 10 and 20 years, will be Thursday, April 3; the anniversary...
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President Emeritus Joshua Lederberg dies at 82

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN His career spanned 60 years, more than a few fields of science and a presidential legacy of dramatic expansion. And throughout it all, Joshua S. Lederberg was valued as highly for his role as mentor, colleague and member of a global community as for his groundbreaking rese...
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Neuroscientist Gerald Fischbach named visiting professor

by ZACH VEILLEUX A neuroscientist who spent his scientific career studying how connections between brain cells form — and who currently helps form connections between researchers studying autism — has been appointed a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. Gerald Fischbach, the second vis...
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Hironori Funabiki promoted to associate professor

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Hironori Funabiki, head of the Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. Dr. Funabiki, who came to the United States from Japan in 1996 and to Rockefeller University in 2002, studies how chromosomes segreg...
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Carolina in his mind

Assistant Director of Security Michael John leaves after 31 years by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The Monday morning commute can be arduous enough within city limits, but when you’re traveling 411 miles, it’s an epic journey. It’s also a trip that Michael John, assistant director of security, has ...
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