Milestones
Awarded: Pradeep Kumar, a Keck Futures Initiative grant from the National Academies. The grant, for $25,000, will fund a project titled “Interaction of Complex Biomolecules with a Complex Liquid: Role of Water in Biology.” Dr. Kumar is a fellow of the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology. ...
New Rockefeller faculty member studies mechanisms of DNA repair
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, has been named assistant professor and will join The Rockefeller University as head of the Lab...
University raises $29 million in new gifts
by ZACH VEILLEUX New private gifts totaling over $29 million will allow the university to launch several new programs and will help provide flexible financial support during the current economic downturn. The gifts, ranging in size from $3 million to $10 million, are positive news for the univers...
Science and the stimulus
Editor’s note: Paul Nurse has asked Mike Young, vice president for academic affairs, to author this month’s president’s column, about how the federal stimulus package will affect the university. Dr. Young has been following developments at the National Institutes of Health that may influence t...
Harvard biochemist named visiting scholar
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Jack Strominger, a Harvard University biochemist and winner of the Lasker Award for discoveries involving key immune system structures, has joined The Rockefeller University as a visiting scholar for the month of April. On sabbatical from his post in the faculty of arts and ...
Milestones
Awarded: Nadya Dimitrova, a 2009 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. One of 13 awardees, Ms. Dimitrova was chosen for her work on repair mechanisms of double-strand breaks. The award offers an honorarium to advanced graduate students for the q...
Rockefeller University Hospital opens new Sleep Research Center
A good night’s sleep is good for your health, but the details have long been sketchy. Now, after decades of study into the relationship between sleep patterns and health in general, science is pointing to the often overlooked role of sleep in particular diseases — from cancer to diabetes to Park...
Rockefeller University Hospital opens clinical trial into statin-associated muscle complaints
The most widely prescribed class of drugs in the country, statins have helped millions of people lower their cholesterol and reduce their risk of heart attacks — but their side effects, including muscle pain and cramping, have proven to be something of a sore point for many patients. Now, research...
Harvard biochemist named visiting scholar
Jack Strominger, Harvard University biochemist and winner of the Lasker Award for discoveries involving immune system structures, has joined The Rockefeller University as a visiting scholar for the month of April. On sabbatical from his post in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College (as...
Announcements
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize awarded to three women scientists. The 2008 award goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco; Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Vicki Lundblad of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. These t...