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Johannes Scheid wins 2012 Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Johannes Scheid, a graduate student in Michel Nussenzweig’s Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, has been named one of this year’s recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, administered by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Scheid is one of 1...
Elaine Fuchs to receive 2012 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, will receive the 2012 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, a coveted award given to honor advancements in the science that underlies our understanding of birth defects. Sh...
Tarun Kapoor to receive Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award
Tarun Kapoor, Pels Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, will receive the 2012 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from The Protein Society. The award recognizes Dr. Kapoor’s work combining chemical and biological approaches to dissect mechanisms of cell div...
2011 Nobel Prize Ceremony to be webcast live
Tomorrow, the family of Nobel Prize winner Ralph M. Steinman, who died September 30, will accept the Nobel medal and diploma on his behalf from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The ceremony will be Webcast live beginning at 10:20 a.m. Eastern Time. A video of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will al...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne elected to Institute of Medicine
Rockefeller University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the health and medicine branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Announced today at the institute’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Tessier-Lavigne is among 65 new members and five foreign ...
Michael W. Young to receive 2011 Horwitz Prize for studies on molecular basis of circadian rhythms
Michael W. Young, head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University, will receive the 2011 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. He shares the prize with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash for their work on the molecular basis of circadian rhythms, the first demonstrati...
Rockefeller University scientist Ralph Steinman, honored today with Nobel Prize for discovery of dendritic cells, dies at 68
Rockefeller University cell biologist Ralph M. Steinman, who discovered the immune system’s sentinel dendritic cells and demonstrated that science can fruitfully harness the power of these cells and other components of the immune system to curb infections and other communicable diseases, is this ...
Gaby Maimon named one of Popular Science’s "Brilliant Ten"
Gaby Maimon, one of Rockefeller’s newest faculty members, who studies the neural basis for decision-making in fruit flies, has been named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant Ten.” The honor recognizes Maimon’s development of a technique to monitor electrical activity in individual neurons ...
2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize to be awarded to McGill University memory researcher
Brenda Milner, a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, will be awarded the 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University. The prize, which carries an honorarium of $100,000, will be presented November 3 at...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne to receive Sloan-Kettering Medal
Rockefeller University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will receive the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research at MSKCC’s 2011 Academic Convocation today. Tessier-Lavigne is the keynote speaker and will deliver the Convocation Address. Tessier-Lavigne ...
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