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Eric Siggia joins National Academy of Sciences
Eric D. Siggia, whose laboratory is interested in applying informatics approaches to study gene expression and other biological problems, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Siggia, who is professor...
New sequencing technique to prod benefits from killer venom
King Kong toxin, a component of the venom in some poisonous marine snails, has a peculiar power to go with its peculiar name. When injected into a meek little lobster in a tank full of superiors, the poison induces delusions of grandeur; the little guy starts marching around like he’s king of the...
New clinical study probes how light fights psoriasis
Ultraviolet light is a proven treatment for psoriasis, one of humanity’s oldest known diseases. Sunshine can also beat back the chronic autoimmune disorder of the skin. But explaining light’s therapeutic effects has been difficult. “We know it works, but we want to know how,” says Michelle L...
Levels of cellular stress determines longevity of retinal cells
Stress can be adaptive. It can make you sharper, help you focus and it can even improve your performance. But too much of it can tax cells to the point where they can no longer cope and slowly self-destruct. Scientists at Rockefeller University now show that when the protein-making factory of the...
Ralph Steinman awarded 2009 Albany Medical Center Prize
Ralph M. Steinman, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, was named a recipient of this year’s Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, at $500,000 the largest award in medicine or science in the United States. Steinman, recogni...
$10 million gift from the Simons Foundation to support new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study
The Rockefeller University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, have established a joint initiative in biology supported by a $10 million gift from the Simons Foundation, a philanthropy established by mathematician and hedge fund manager James Simons, a trustee of The Ro...
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 an...
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...
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