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Stanley Fowler

A security guard since November 2009, Stanley Fowler mostly worked the evening and overnight shifts. He died in August at the age of 58. Originally from England, Mr. Fowler moved to the U.S. in 2002 and had worked as a guard at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where he lived, before joining Rockefell...
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Milestones

Awarded: Cori Bargmann, the 11th Perl-University of North Carolina Neuroscience Prize. The award, which Dr. Bargmann shares with Catherine Dulac of Harvard, is worth $10,000 and is awarded this year for the discovery of chemosensory circuits that regulate social behaviors. Dr. Bargmann, Torsten N...

In the News

“Peter Holt, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York, said that overweight patients who have the common ‘stomach stapling’ operations are likely to have large concentrations of alcohol in the blood even if they drink little, which take a long time to wear off. As a result, Dr. Holt ...

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“Dr. Greengard, 85, is still making breakthroughs. In an offshoot of his award-winning research, the director of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research recently discovered a new pathway for potentially treating the disease. He identified a protein in mice that stimulates the production of b...

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“Consider the investigation of Mike Rossner, executive director of the Rockefeller University Press. In 2002, while trying to format a scientific image in Photoshop that was going to appear in one of the journals, Rossner noticed that the background of the image contained different intensities of...

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"‘The problems are here and now,’ said Joel Cohen, head of the laboratory of populations at New York's Rockefeller University. ‘People forget there are a billion chronically hungry people; every day those people wake up and they’re hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.’”

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After the success of protease inhibitors in HIV, research groups around the world began investigating whether the same mechanism would work for hepatitis C. In 1997 Charles M. Rice, now head of the laboratory of virology and infectious disease at the Rockefeller University, showed that mutating t...
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Rockefeller University receives $36.1 million to help translate science into cures

Rockefeller University’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), a center aimed at accelerating the pace of translating science into real-life solutions for patients, has received $36.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand its work over the next five years. Th...
Science News

DNA testing by high school students shows many teas contain unlisted ingredients

Your tea may not be what you think. Three New York City high school students, working with Rockefeller scientists, have found several herbal brews and a few brands of tea contain ingredients unlisted on the manufacturers’ package. The teen sleuths also demonstrated new-to-science genetic variatio...
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Scientists identify broad and potent HIV antibodies that mimic CD4 binding

In a finding that may be good news for scientists developing HIV vaccines and therapies, a team of researchers at The Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have found a way to investigate the broadly neutralizing antibody response against the CD4 binding site of HIV on a ...
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