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Jeffrey Friedman receives Shaw Prize for discovery of leptin
Jeffrey M. Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University, has received the 2009 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. The prize was announced today by the Hong Kong-based Shaw Prize Foundation. Friedman shares the $1 million a...
Rockefeller University names Robert Sapolsky 2008 Lewis Thomas Prize winner
Primatologist and Stanford University neuroscientist Robert M. Sapolsky has been named the recipient of Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2008. The award recognizes Sapolsky’s 2001 publication A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life...
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...
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...
Sean Brady named HHMI Early Career Scientist
Sean F. Brady, assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules at The Rockefeller University, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Early Career Scientist. The Early Career Scientist program, launched in 2008, was created to support the work...
2008 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize awarded to three leading biologists
The Rockefeller University has announced the winners of the fifth annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize: Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco; Carol W. Greider of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Vicki Lundblad of the Salk Institute for Biologic...
Nadya Dimitrova wins 2009 Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Nadya Dimitrova, a graduate fellow in Titia de Lange’s Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics 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. Ms. Dimitrova ...
Cori Bargmann wins 2009 Lounsbery Award
Cori Bargmann, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, is the recipient of this year’s Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences. The award, which was announced on Wednesday, is in recognition of Bargmann’s successful use of molecular an...
Tom Muir, Paul Nurse honored at Science and the City Gala
The New York Academy of Sciences has honored Rockefeller University professor Tom W. Muir with a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, and also presented Rockefeller president Paul Nurse with a Science and the City Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in New York City. The awards were given at t...
Michel Nussenzweig wins Howley Prize for Arthritis Research
Michel C. Nussenzweig, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, is one of this year’s two winners of the Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research. The award will be presented at the Evening of Honors reception of the annual Arthritis Foundation meeting Novem...
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