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New security initiatives focus on “active shooter” threat
New training for guards, additional shifts at 66th Street, community outreach initiatives and more restrictive access controls are among improvements being made to campus security with an eye toward preventing an “active shooter” incident like those that have caused mass casualties in Newtown, C...
Howard Hang promoted to associate professor
By Zach Veilleux Howard Hang, a chemist who works to develop new tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions, has been promoted to associate professor. The promotion was approved by the university’s Board of Trustees at its recent meeting and is effective as of January 1. Dr. Hang is Richar...
Milestones
Awarded: C. David Allis, a $1 million grant from the Starr Foundation’s Sixth Starr Cancer Consortium Grant Competition to investigate epigenetic contributions to the development of pediatric gliomas. Dr. Allis is the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology ...
Rockefeller announces 31 percent reduction in carbon emissions
Five years after the university committed to reducing its carbon footprint as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2030 Carbon Challenge, the results from several institutions have been announced. Rockefeller’s carbon emissions fell by nearly 31 percent, based on 2005 levels. Rockefeller was one of...
Scientists discover gene mutation that causes children to be born without spleen
The spleen is rarely noticed, until it is missing. In children born without a spleen, that doesn’t happen until they become sick with life-threatening bacterial infections, often within their first year of life. An international team of researchers led by scientists from Rockefeller’s St. Giles ...
In the News
Looking to nature for antibiotic inspirations   "Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacterial cells, employ an arsenal of chemical weapons. Microbiologist Vincent Fischetti of Rockefeller University describes using tricks learned from the phage in developing new antibiotics that may be effective...
Science online: April 11, 2013
Science online: April 11, 2013 Ribosomal protein SA haploinsufficiency in humans with isolated congenital asplenia Alexandre Bolze, Nizar Mahlaoui, Minji Byun, Bridget Turner, Nikolaus Trede, Steven  R. Ellis, Avinash Abhyankar, Yuval Itan, Etienne Patin, Samuel Brebner, Paul Sackstein, Anne Puel...
Scientists use Nature against Nature to develop an antibiotic with reduced resistance
A new broad range antibiotic, developed jointly by scientists at The Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs. The antibiotic, Epimerox, targe...
Nature 496: 110-113 (4-4-13)
Nature 496: 110-113 SIRT6 regulates TNF-α secretion through hydrolysis of long-chain fatty acyl lysine Hong Jiang, Saba Khan, Yi Wang, Guillaume Charron, Bin He, Carlos Sebastian, Jintang Du, Ray Kim, Eva Ge, Raul Mostoslavsky, Howard C. Hang, Quan Hao and Hening Lin
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Obama to unveil initiative to map the human brain   "A working group at the N.I.H., described by the officials as a 'dream team,' and led by Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, will be charged with coming up with a plan, a time frame, specific goals...
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