Current issue
Milestones
Promoted:
Hidehiro Fukuyama, from postdoctoral fellow to research associate,
Ravetch Lab.
Joseph S. Glavy, from postdoctoral fellow to research associate, Blobel
Lab.
Tarun Kapoor, from assistant professor to associate professor. Kapoor
is head of the Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology.
Joseph Marcotrigiano, from postdoctoral fellow to research associate,
Rice Lab.
Ivo Melcak, from postdoctoral associate to research associate,
Blobel Lab.
Hired:
Bethany Antos,
archival assistant, Archive Center.
Swain Bostick,
security guard, Security.
Dane Campbell,
research assistant, Heintz Laboratory.
Joseph Colosi,
mechanic I, Plant Operations Maintenance Shop.
Katherine B. Cundey, member of the adjunct faculty, Breslow Laboratory.
Anne Dalton,
clinical research nurse practitioner, Kreek Laboratory.
June Dela Cruz,
research specialist, Fuchs Laboratory.
Carol Feltes,
university librarian, Library.
Iran Gomez, study
coordinator, Vosshall Laboratory.
Sara Hamon,
research associate, Ott Laboratory.
Lindsey Hollander,
manuscript coordinator JCB, Rockefeller University Press.
Arlene Hurley Rosenblatt, GCRC nurse specialist, Hospital Nursing Administration.
Mirna Kvajo,
postdoctoral fellow, Karayiorgou Laboratory.
Robert M. Lewis,
member of the adjunct faculty, Greengard Laboratory.
Olga Malkova,
research support assistant, Flow Cytometry Resource Center.
Philip Mazzola,
senior windows systems administrator, Information Technology.
Christos Michalopoulos, research support specialist, Bio-Imaging Resource
Center.
Teresa Milner,
member of the adjunct faculty, McEwen Laboratory.
Annie Neild,
postdoctoral fellow, McKinney Laboratory.
Andre Phillips,
custodian, Plant Operations Custodial Services.
Jun Julia Ren,
database administrator,
Information Technology.
Silvia Salas Pino,
research assistant, Nurse Laboratory.
Leah Sashitzky,
animal technician, Greengard Laboratory.
Edward Sebastian,
custodian, Plant Operations Custodial Services.
Amanda Sewkumar,
grants accountant, Finance Research Administration.
Yuhong Shen,
member of the adjunct faculty, J.E. Darnell Laboratory.
Ishwar Singh,
member of the adjunct faculty, Pfaff Laboratory.
Sarah Amy Stanley,
postdoctoral fellow, Friedman Laboratory.
Margaret K Staudt,
research assistant, Robert Darnell Laboratory.
Deborah Stead,
transgenics supervisor, Heintz Laboratory.
Hongzhe Wang,
research assistant, Roeder Laboratory.
Todd Wells, media
support specialist, Information Technology.
Hui Xia, research
associate, Coller Laboratory.
Awarded:
The 18th Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Medical
Research Award in cardiovascular disease, to Barry Coller. The
annual award, given by the Pasarow Foundation, recognizes
extraordinary accomplishments in cancer, cardiovascular, and
neuropsychiatry research. The award was presented on June 5 in Los
Angeles. Dr. Coller is physician-in-chief, vice president for
medical affairs and head of the Laboratory of Blood and Vascular
Biology.
David G. Nathan, a
member of the Board of Trustees at Rockefeller University and
president emeritus of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was awarded
the prestigious George M. Kober Medal from the Association of
American Physicians. Named after George Kober, a pioneer in public
health reform, the award recognizes physicians who are leaders in
internal medicine.
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, the 2005 AAI-Huang Foun-dation Meritorious Career
Award. Established by the American Association of Immunologists in
1999 in partnership with the Huang Foun-dation, this award
recognizes an established scientist for outstanding research
contributions to the field of immunology. Dr. Ravetch is head of
the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology.
Robert G. Roeder, a honorary doctor of science degree from
Washington University in St. Louis at their 144th Commencement ceremony on May
20. Dr. Roeder is the Arnold O. and Mabel S. Beckman Professor of
Biochemistry and head of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology.
To Xin
Yu, postdoctoral fellow in the Roeder
laboratory, a $105,000 research grant from the Lymphoma Research
Foundation. The foundation’s annual fellowship grants
“permit the uninterrupted development of promising leads and
help attract the nation’s best scientific talent to careers
in lymphoma research.”
Paul Nurse, an honorary doctor of science degree from Bard College
at its 145th commencement on May 21.
Named:
David C. Allis and Charles M.
Rice, new members of the National
Academy of Sciences. Members and foreign associates are elected in
recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in
original research. Thirty other Rockefeller University scientists
are members or foreign associates. Dr. Allis is head of the
Laboratory of Chromatin Biology. Dr. Rice is a Maurice R. and
Corinne P. Greenberg Professor and head of the Laboratory of
Virology and Infectious Disease.
Barry Coller, a 2005 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Fellows are selected for preeminent contributions to
their disciplines and to society. The Academy will welcome this
year’s new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members at its annual
induction ceremony on October 8 at the Academy’s headquarters
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Coller is physician-in-chief, vice
president for medical affairs and head of the Laboratory of Blood
and Vascular Biology.
Elaine Fuchs and Roderick
MacKinnon, to the American
Philosophical Society. Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the
APS seeks to promote useful knowledge in the sciences and
humanities through scholarly research, professional meetings,
publications, library resources, and community outreach. Dr. Fuchs
is Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigator and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology
and Development. Dr. MacKinnon is a John D. Rockefeller Professor,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and head of the
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics.
Donald W. Pfaff, speaker at a May 23 Nobel symposium in Stockholm on the
topic of gender-related medicine. Dr. Pfaff discussed differences
in specific transcript levels in brain regions at the stage of
development during which sex differences in the central nervous
system arise. Dr. Pfaff is head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology
and Behavior.
An inaugural symposium at the University of
Michigan, in honor of Bruce
McEwen’s contributions to mental
health research. The May 2 event, titled “Neural Development
and Plasticity: Implications for Stress Biology and Mood
Disorders,” celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the
university’s Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences
Institute, formerly the Mental Health Research Institute, an
internationally recognized research institute where Dr. McEwen
serves as an external advisor. At Rockefeller, Dr. McEwen is the
Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret
Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.
Paul Greengard, Joshua
Lederberg and Paul Nurse,
speakers at the May 19 centennial celebration of the Harvey Society
that took place at Rockefeller University. The Society organizes
lecture series in its efforts to forge a closer relationship
between the purely practical side of medicine and the results of
laboratory investigation. Dr. Greengard is Vincent Astor Professor
and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
and Dr. Lederberg is president emeritus. Dr. Nurse is head of
Laboratory for Yeast Genetics and Cell Biology.
David Gadsby, fellow of the Royal Society, for his work “on the
mechanisms of ion pumping in cell membranes, particularly the
dysfunctions in ion transport processes which cause cystic
fibrosis.” The Royal Society selects 44 new fellows each
year, who then sign their name in the Society book alongside
Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, among others. Dr. Gadsby joins
seven other members of the Rockefeller University faculty that hold
this honor. Dr. Gadsby is the head of the Laboratory of Cardiac and
Membrane Physiology.
Ali Brivanlou, to the newly formed Scientific and Medical Research
Funding Working Group committee of 15 renowned biologists, to
operate under the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
The group will review grant proposals and standards for stem cell
research in the state. Harriet
Rabb was appointed to the
group’s Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards
Working Group. Dr. Brivanlou is head of the Laboratory of Molecular
Vertebrate Embryology; Ms. Rabb is vice president and General
Counsel.
This publication lists new hires, retirements
and academic appointments and promotions of The Rockefeller
University, as well awards we are made aware of. Please send
notices of awards to zach.veilleux@rockefeller.edu.
June 17, 2005
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