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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...

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 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...

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 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...

This year’s Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the most prestigious American prize in science, honors Rockefeller University’s Ralph M. Steinman, who discovered dendritic cells, the preeminent component of the immune system that initiates and regulates the body's response to foreign...

The sixth Danone International Prize for Nutrition, an award that honors innovative nutritional research, was given to Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey Friedman today at the European Nutrition Conference in Paris. The prize, which is worth €120,000 — approximately $163,000 — recognizes scien...

Rockefeller University President Emeritus Torsten N. Wiesel, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is a recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Science, the White House announced Tuesday. Established by Congress in 1959 and administered by the National Science Foundation, the...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems, announced this week that two Rockefeller University faculty members have been elected to its membership. Titia de Lange, head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of C...

Albert J. Libchaber, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, and Michael W. Young, head of the Laboratory of Genetics, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences during its 144th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this morning. The Rockefeller s...

The 2007 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology has been awarded to Jeffrey V. Ravetch, head of Rockefeller University’s Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology. The Cancer Research Institute, which administers the prize, chose Ravet...

C. David Allis, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor at Rockefeller University, is a recipient of the 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Awards. Allis is one of five scientists honored by the Gairdner Foundation for “fundamental discoveries that will have impact on human genetic development, cancer...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Rockefeller University scientist Jeffrey M. Friedman will receive the National Academy of Sciences’ Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal — a medal and prize of $25,000 awarded every three years for important contributions to the medical sciences....

President Emeritus Joshua Lederberg is one of 10 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, President George W. Bush announced today. Established by Executive Order 11085 in 1963, the Medal may be awarded by the president “to any person who has made an e...

Three Rockefeller University scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. The election of Arleen Auerbach, Cori Bargmann and Nathaniel Heintz was announced in the AAAS News and Notes section...

A discovery by a Rockefeller University chemist that enabled the rapid synthesis of peptides and proteins — and garnered a Nobel Prize in 1984 — will be honored Monday by the American Chemical Society. The presentation of the Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs will be part of a daylong scientif...

The third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an international award to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists, will be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. The prize, awarded by Rockefeller University, was established by Paul Greengard, Rockef...

Four Rockefeller University scientists — Titia de Lange, Charles D. Gilbert, Michael E. O’Donnell and Jeffrey V. Ravetch — have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the ...

Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has been elected a fellow of 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 April 24. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bow...

Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen, whose laboratory studies how the brain changes in response to stress and other experiences, will receive the 2005 Neuropsychiatry Research Award from the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation. The announcement was made this week by the Pasarow Foundation i...

Rockefeller University’s Fernando Nottebohm will receive the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia announced today. The medal recognizes Nottebohm’s discovery of neuronal replacement in the adult vertebrate brain and the elaboration of the mechanism...

Three of Rockefeller’s scientists were honored today with 2005 New York City’s Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology: Jan Breslow, Mitchell Feigenbaum and Leslie Vosshall. Jan Breslow is recognized with the Award in Biological and Medical Sciences for his pioneering work on ...

Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has been elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a medical research organization dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge in the life sciences. HHMI announced Nurse’s election on December 14. Nurse, 56, is one of 1...

Two postdoctoral researchers at Rockefeller University, Nicolas E. Buchler and Edo L. Kussell, were awarded 2006 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, it was announced today. Buchler and Kussell each will receive $500,000 to foster their development and produ...

Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen has received the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the world’s largest donor-supported philanthropy devoted to the support of research on brain and behavioral disorders. Mc...

The second annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international prize awarded by The Rockefeller University to an outstanding woman scientist, will be presented to immunologist Philippa Marrack on November 10. The prize, which was established by Rockefeller University Professor and Nobel l...

Rockefeller University’s Trustees have elected Margaret Hamburg, M.D., a former New York City Health Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and one of the youngest people ever elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, to serve on the university’s Board. “Peggy ...

Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey M. Friedman, a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, it was announced toda...

Rockefeller University President Emeritus Torsten Wiesel received the Institute of Medicine’s David Rall Medal, it was announced today. The medal is awarded annually to an IOM member who has demonstrated particularly distinguished leadership as chair of a study committee or other activity, showin...

Rockefeller University’s Titia de Lange, Ph.D., is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, the NIH announced today. She will receive up to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years to fund research that will examine how cells respond to DNA damage. The...