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Four Rockefeller researchers named finalists in Blavavtik Awards for Young Scientists
Four Rockefeller scientists — head of laboratory Tom W. Muir, postdocs Valerie Horsley and Andreas Keller and former postdoc Matthew Evans — have been named finalists for the second annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Ch...
Two Rockefeller faculty become new HHMI investigators
Two Rockefeller faculty members, Paul D. Bieniasz and Leslie B. Vosshall, are among 56 biomedical scientists nationwide chosen to become Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators this year. The new appointments bring the total number of HHMI investigators at the university to 14. HHMI investi...
Seth Darst joins National Academy of Sciences
Seth Darst, whose research explores the mechanisms by which RNA is transcribed from DNA, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Darst will be inducted into the Academy next April during its annual meet...
Jeffrey Ravetch elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, an immunologist who studies how cells respond to specific antibodies, has been elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. The academy announced the election this week; Ra...
First Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes awarded to infectious disease experts
The inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes, named after Rockefeller University’s prominent early-20th-century bacteriologist, were awarded to Brian Greenwood and Miriam K. Were, the government of Japan announced yesterday. Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London Sc...
Three geneticists win 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The fourth annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize has been awarded to Gail Martin of the University of California, San Francisco, Beatrice Mintz of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and Elizabeth Robertson of the University of Oxford. The award, created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding fem...
Center for Clinical and Translational Science funds eight new pilot studies
The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Pilot Project grants. Eight Rockefeller researchers will each receive $25,000 from the center to fund early studies in translational science that, if successful, might lead to ...
Three biophysicists receive Burroughs Wellcome career awards
Three Rockefeller University scientists are among the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI): Dirk Albrecht, postdoctoral associate in Cori Bargmann’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Maria Neimark Geffen, fellow at the Center for Studies in Physi...
Sean Brady named 2007 Beckman Young investigator
Chemical biologist Sean Brady, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, is one of this year’s Beckman Young Investigators. One of 16 awardees this year, Brady was chosen by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for his work in the discovery and study ...
Jeffrey Ravetch elected to Institute of Medicine
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, head of Rockefeller University’s Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Ravetch is one of 65 new members and four foreign associates whose election was announced today at the institute’s annual meeting at...
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