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Milestones
Promoted:
Zu-lin Chen, from research associate to research assistant professor,
Strickland Lab.
Andrea Rothman, from postdoctoral fellow to research associate,
Mombaerts Lab.
Hired:
Debra Cannan, executive assistant, Investments.
Eduardo Cotto, security guard, Security.
Radha Devi, postdoctoral associate, Blobel Lab.
Yee Fung, assistant for research, Breslow Lab.
Gen He, postdoctoral associate, Greengard Lab.
Peter Holt, member of the adjunct faculty, Breslow Lab.
Leslie Jenney, administrative secretary, Dhodapkar Lab.
Yoshikatsu Kaneko, postdoctoral fellow, Ravetch Lab.
Atanas Kaykov, postdoctoral associate, Nurse Lab.
Andriy Kozlov, postdoctoral associate, Hudspeth Lab.
James Lapple, vice president for finance & controller, Finance.
Yongsheng Liu, postdoctoral fellow, Chua Lab.
Chi Yeung (Kevin) Lui, accountant, Accounting Services.
Svetlana Marukian, assistant for research, Rice Lab.
Alexander Medina, doorperson, Scholar’s Residence.
Maria Soledad Miranda-Rottmann, postdoctoral associate, Hudspeth Lab.
Rada Norinsky, manager, Transgenic Service Laboratory.
Maryline Panis, assistant for research, Rice Lab.
Paul Parke, mechanic 3, Power Plant.
Kyle Schwandt, laboratory administrator, Allis Lab.
Fatma Tat, postdoctoral fellow, Kapoor Lab.
Hanpeng Xu, postdoctoral associate, Fischetti Lab.
Anton Zilman, postdoctoral fellow, Magnasco Lab.
Awarded:
Mary Jeanne Kreek, the gold medal for distinguished academic
accomplishment from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Columbia University Association of Alumni. Kreek, who is head of
the Laboratory of Biology of Addictive Diseases, received her M.D.
degree from Columbia in 1962. The award, which is the Alumni
Association’s highest honor, was presented at the Alumni
Reunion Weekend on May 15.
Dan Nelson, a Watson grant from the New York State Office of
Science, Technology and Academic Research. Watson grants are
awarded to early career scientists who demonstrate leadership
potential in the life sciences. Nelson is a research associate in
Vince Fischetti’s lab.
Marnie Pillsbury, the Distinguished Alumna Award from Stern Women in
Business, a student organization of New York University’s
Stern School of Business. Pillsbury is a Rockefeller University
trustee.
Named:
Paul Nurse, speaker at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center’s Academic Convocation. Nurse’s speech, on May
11, was titled “Science, Society and Progress.”
Donald Pfaff, to the membership of The Harvey Society, an organization
that sponsors a series of lectures on science held several times
each year in Caspary Auditorium. Pfaff is head of the Laboratory of
Neurobiology and Behavior.
Published:
Jeffrey Friedman’s commentary, “A War On Obesity,
Not the Obese,” in The Best American Science and Nature
Writing 2004. Originally published in Science in
February 2003, Friedman’s commentary was selected from
among hundreds of articles reviewed for the annual compilation.
Friedman is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics.
This publication lists new hires, retirements,
awards and academic appointments and promotions of The Rockefeller
University. Please send notices of awards to
zach.veilleux@rockefeller.edu or to Box 68.
June 7, 2004
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