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Rockefeller postdoc wins GE & Science Prize
Michael Crickmore, a Rockefeller University postdoctoral fellow in Leslie B. Vosshall’s Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, is Grand Prize winner in the 2009 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, an essay competition established and administered by GE Healthcare, Science magazine an...
Shaham and Chalasani named winners of 2009 Blavatnik Awards
Two Rockefeller University scientists were named winners of the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists at last night’s Science and the City Gala hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences. Associate Professor Shai Shaham, head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, an...
2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize goes to pioneering geneticist
The recipient of the 2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is Australian geneticist Suzanne Cory, professor and former director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding female scientists and administered by The Rockefeller Un...
Rockefeller postdoc named finalist for Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Max Heiman, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, has been named a finalist in the eighth annual Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology competition. The international prize, established in 2002 by Eppendorf and Sciencemagazine, recognizes the most outstanding neurobiological resear...
Elaine Fuchs to receive 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO prize for women scientists
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, will be the North American recipient of a 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award in the Life Sciences, which recognizes exceptional women scientists. Fuchs is one of fi...
Immunologist Michel Nussenzweig elected to Institute of Medicine
Immunologist Michel C. Nussenzweig, head of Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, has beenelected 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., Nussenz...
Obesity researcher wins Keio Medical Science Prize
Jeffrey M. Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, has been named a recipient of the 14th annual Keio Medical Science Prize, announced today by Keio University. Recognized for his pioneering work in the genetics of obesity and...
Two Rockefeller scientists named finalists for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Two Rockefeller scientists — Associate Professor and head of laboratory Shai Shaham and Postdoctoral Fellow Sreekanth H. Chalasani — have been named finalists in the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik ...
Head of Rockefeller University Press named 2009 SPARC Innovator
Mike Rossner, executive director of The Rockefeller University Press, has been named the newest SPARC Innovator by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Announced last week, the award honors Rossner for his work as a proponent of data integrity in and wider public access to s...
Michael Young receives Gruber Foundation's 2009 Neuroscience Prize
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University, has received the 2009 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, the foundation announced today. He shares the $500,000 prize with Jeffrey Hall, professor o...
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