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Neuroscientist Gaby Maimon given top honor from White House for early career scientists

Gaby Maimon, assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function at Rockefeller, has been chosen by President Obama as one of 20 NIH scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government t...

Neuroscientist Winrich Freiwald awarded New York Stem Cell Foundation grant

Winrich Freiwald, assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Neural Systems at The Rockefeller University, has been named a Robertson Investigator by the New York Stem Cell Foundation. He is one of seven scientists who will receive $1.5 million over the next five years to expand their labo...

Neurobiologist Vanessa Ruta receives New Innovator Award to fund research on memory wiring in the brain

Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, is the latest Rockefeller scientist to be given a prestigious NIH Director’s Award, a collection of awards that recognize highly innovative approaches to contemporary challenges in biomedical research. The New Innovator Award, ...

Huda Y. Zoghbi, pediatric neurologist, to receive 2013 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who has worked on the genetic underpinnings of rare neurological diseases and advanced our understanding of brain disorders, has been selected to receive the tenth annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize — one of the world’s preemin...

James E. Darnell Jr. elected to membership in American Philosophical Society

James E. Darnell Jr., Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the biological sciences. The American Philosophical Society is an honorary society that elects new members each year who have shown extraordinary accomplishments in their fields. Foun...

Jonathan Fisher receives Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

Jonathan Fisher, a postdoctoral fellow in James Hudspeth’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at Rockefeller, has been given the Blavatnik Award, a distinction for early-career scientists. The award is sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and given to researchers under the age of 42 who ...

Paul Nurse receives Albert Einstein World Award of Science

The World Cultural Council has awarded Paul Nurse, president emeritus and head of the Laboratory of Yeast Genetics and Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University, its Albert Einstein World Award of Science. The award honors those whose research has brought “true benefit and well-being to mankind,...

Mike Young to receive Shaw Prize

Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, will receive the 2013 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine in recognition of his work on the molecular biology of circadian rhythms. The prize was announced this week at a press conference in Hong Kon...

Jean-Laurent Casanova appointed HHMI investigator

Jean-Laurent Casanova, senior attending physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been named one of 27 new investigators with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nonprofit medical research organi...

Lewis Thomas Prize to be awarded to Kay Redfield Jamison

Clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison will be presented with Rockefeller University’s 2012 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science at a ceremony on June 5, 2013. The award recognizes Jamison’s 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament...