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Elaine Fuchs receives prestigious award from American Association for Cancer Research
In recognition of her contributions to the understanding of skin, skin stem cells and skin-related disease, Rockefeller’s Elaine Fuchs will receive the 2014 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research. The award, announced to...
Sebastian Klinge awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Rockefeller’s Sebastian Klinge, who joined the faculty in September, will be the recipient of one of the most distinguished awards for early-career scientists from the United States and Canada, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Klinge is among 126 scholars from a range of scientific discip...
David Allis, pioneer in epigenetics, to receive prestigious Japan Prize
C. David Allis, a pioneer in the field of epigenetics whose discovery that chemical modifications of DNA-packaging proteins play a key role in regulating the activity of individual genes, will be awarded the 2014 Japan Prize in Life Sciences. The announcement, by the Japan Prize Foundation, was m...
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,...
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