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Neurobiologist Vanessa Ruta receives New Innovator Award to fund research on memory wiring in the brain
Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, is the latest Rockefeller scientist to be given a prestigious NIH Director’s Award, a collection of awards that recognize highly innovative approaches to contemporary challenges in biomedical research. The New Innovator Award, ...
Huda Y. Zoghbi, pediatric neurologist, to receive 2013 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who has worked on the genetic underpinnings of rare neurological diseases and advanced our understanding of brain disorders, has been selected to receive the tenth annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize — one of the world’s preemin...
James E. Darnell Jr. elected to membership in American Philosophical Society
James E. Darnell Jr., Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the biological sciences. The American Philosophical Society is an honorary society that elects new members each year who have shown extraordinary accomplishments in their fields. Foun...
Jonathan Fisher receives Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
Jonathan Fisher, a postdoctoral fellow in James Hudspeth’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at Rockefeller, has been given the Blavatnik Award, a distinction for early-career scientists. The award is sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and given to researchers under the age of 42 who ...
Paul Nurse receives Albert Einstein World Award of Science
The World Cultural Council has awarded Paul Nurse, president emeritus and head of the Laboratory of Yeast Genetics and Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University, its Albert Einstein World Award of Science. The award honors those whose research has brought “true benefit and well-being to mankind,...
Mike Young to receive Shaw Prize
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, will receive the 2013 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine in recognition of his work on the molecular biology of circadian rhythms. The prize was announced this week at a press conference in Hong Kon...
Jean-Laurent Casanova appointed HHMI investigator
Jean-Laurent Casanova, senior attending physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been named one of 27 new investigators with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nonprofit medical research organi...
Lewis Thomas Prize to be awarded to Kay Redfield Jamison
Clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison will be presented with Rockefeller University’s 2012 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science at a ceremony on June 5, 2013. The award recognizes Jamison’s 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Jeffrey Friedman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its new class of members today, including two Rockefeller University researchers. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Rockefeller president, Carson Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, and Jeffrey M. Friedman, Marilyn M...
Elaine Fuchs to receive Pasarow Award
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, is one of three recipients of this year’s Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Awards in Cancer Research. Pasarow awards, first present...
Teresa Davoli wins 2013 Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Rockefeller University graduate student Teresa Davoli, who will receive her degree this June, has been given a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, one of the country’s most prestigious graduate student prizes. Davoli has been a member of Titia de Lange’s Laboratory of Cell Biology and Ge...
Vanessa Ruta awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Vanessa Ruta, assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship. Ruta will receive $50,000 to further her research on how neural circuits are modified by experience. The two-year fellowsh...
Cori Bargmann, Titia de Lange win inaugural Breakthrough Prizes worth $3 million
Two Rockefeller University scientists are among 11 winners of the first annual Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, an award established by six tech entrepreneurs dedicated to advancing breakthrough research. At $3 million each, the prizes are worth more than twice the amount of the Nobel. Cori B...
David Allis awarded $1 million grant from Starr Cancer Consortium
C. David Allis, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics at Rockefeller, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Starr Cancer Consortium. Allis leads one of five cancer research teams from the New York City based members of the consortium...
Jeff Friedman to receive King Faisal and BBVA prizes
Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, will be the recipient of two international scientific awards announced this week. The King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, from the Saudi Arabian King Faisal Foundation, and the BBVA Fr...
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences awarded to Mike Young and colleagues
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, has been awarded the twelfth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences along with his colleagues, Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University. The researchers are being honored for their disc...
Charles M. Rice awarded Dautrebande Prize
Charles M. Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, has been given the Prize of Pathophysiology Professor Lucien Dautrebande from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine for his description of the molecular and ce...
Elaine Fuchs awarded distinguished medal from New York Academy of Medicine
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, will be awarded the 2012 Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science from the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), for her innovati...
Rockefeller fellow receives NIH ‘early independence award’ to study immune responses with high throughput sequencing
Brad Rosenberg, who completed his M.D.-Ph.D. through the Tri-Institutional program in May, is one of 14 early-career investigators across the country to receive an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, which will allow him to establish his own research program at Rockefeller. He has been named...
Shai Shaham and Sean Brady receive promotions
Two Rockefeller faculty members have received promotions, both of which were approved by the Board at its June 7 meeting. Shai Shaham, head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University, has been awarded tenure and promoted to professor; Sean Brady, head of the Laborat...
Jeffrey M. Friedman awarded 11th IPSEN Endocrine Regulation Prize
The Fondation IPSEN has awarded its 11th Endocrine Regulation Prize to Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, for his discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. The French foundation, whose mission is to...
Five Rockefeller scientists receive high risk-high reward NIH grants
An unprecedented number of Rockefeller University faculty have been awarded prestigious five-year grants under the High Risk High Reward program supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. Robert B. Darnell and Thomas Tuschl are each receiving a 2012 NIH Director’s Transformative ...
Michael W. Young receives Massry Prize
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, is being honored with the 2012 Massry Prize for his groundbreaking work on the molecular biology of circadian rhythms. Established by the Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation, the prize recognizes outsta...
Jean-Laurent Casanova to receive 2012 Milstein Award
Jean-Laurent Casanova, head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been named the Seymour and Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research 2012 laureate. He will receive the prize at the annual meeting of the International Society of ...
Jeffrey Ravetch wins 2012 Sanofi – Institut Pasteur Award
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, head of the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at Rockefeller University, has been given the 2012 Sanofi – Institut Pasteur Award for discovering mechanisms by which antibodies carry out their diverse biological functions. He is one of four scientis...
Vanessa Ruta named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, has been chosen as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Ruta is among twenty-two early-career researchers who are being honored for showing outstanding promise in ...
Cornelia Bargmann receives Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
Cornelia Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, is the recipient of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Bargmann, who is also an investigator at the How...
Two Rockefeller postdocs win Blavatnik Awards
Two Rockefeller University postdoctoral fellows have been named winners in the 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition from The New York Academy of Sciences. Andrey Feklistov, from Seth Darst’s Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, and Nicholas Stavropoulos, from Michael Young’s Lab...
Vanessa Ruta honored with McKnight Scholar Award
Vanessa Ruta, assistant professor at The Rockefeller University and head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, has been honored with a McKnight Scholar Award for her research on the functional organization of the neural circuits underlying olfactory learning. The 2012 awards, present...
American Philosophical Society elects Cori Bargmann to membership
Cori Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at The Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the biological sciences. The American Philosophical Society is an honorary society that elects new members...
Cori Bargmann honored with Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award
Cori Bargmann, head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at Rockefeller University, will receive the twelfth annual Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award in Basic Biotechnology. Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller and an investigator at H...
Albany Medical Center Prize awarded to James E. Darnell Jr. and Robert G. Roeder
Two Rockefeller University pioneers in the field of gene regulation and expression will be honored with the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the nation’s largest prize in medicine. James E. Darnell Jr., head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at Rockefelle...
Jeffrey V. Ravetch and Michael W. Young to receive Canada Gairdner International Awards
Two Rockefeller University scientists will be honored with a Canada Gairdner International Award this year, which are given for significant discoveries in medical science. Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Theresa and Eugene Lang Professor and head of the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Imm...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne to receive Friesen International Prize
Marc Tessier-Lavigne will receive the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. The Prize, established by the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research in collaboration with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, recognizes exceptional innovation by a visionary health lea...
Titia de Lange to receive Heineken Prize
Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University, has been awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, the first time the award has been given to a woman. Presented by the Royal Netherlands Academy for Ar...
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 ...
Jean-Laurent Casanova honored with Belgium’s highest scientific prize
Jean-Laurent Casanova, professor and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases at Rockefeller University, has received the 2011 InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize for his pioneering work on the identification of genes that predispose for human infectious disease. He...
Michel C. Nussenzweig elected to National Academy of Sciences
Immunologist Michel C. Nussenzweig, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Announced today at the institute’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Nussenzweig is among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elec...
Jesse Ausubel elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society and independent policy research center. The academy announced the election this week; Ausubel will be inducted this fall. ...
Bruce S. McEwen to receive Scolnick Prize for research on brain hormones
Bruce S. McEwen is the winner of the 2011 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today. The Scolnick Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience. “Bruce has made pi...
Elaine Fuchs awarded 2011 Albany Medical Center Prize
Elaine Fuchs, head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, 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 and science in the United States. Fuchs, recognized for her co...
Elaine Fuchs to receive Passano Award
Elaine Fuchs, a world leader in skin biology and its human genetic disorders, will receive the Passano Prize for landmark contributions to skin biology and its disorders, including genetic syndromes, stem cells and cancers. Fuchs will receive the award and give the Passano Foundation Award lectur...
Titia de Lange receives 2011 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science
Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University, has received the 2011 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science for her body of research on mechanisms that help maintain genome stability. The prize includes a $100,000 cash award and ...
Robert B. Darnell and Victor Wilson named 2010 AAAS Fellows
Rockefeller University scientists Robert B. Darnell and Victor Wilson have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. This year 503 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS...
Robert G. Roeder to receive Salk Institute Medal for Research Excellence
Robert G. Roeder, head of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, will receive the Salk Institute’s Medal for Research Excellence for his contributions to the understanding of RNA synthesis in animal cells. This is only the second time in Salk’s 50-year history that medals have ...
Two Rockefeller scientists elected to Institute of Medicine
Rockefeller University scientists Robert B. Darnell, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, and Titia de Lange, head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the health and medicine branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Ann...
Jeffrey M. Friedman receives Albert Lasker Award for discovery of leptin
This year’s Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the most prestigious American prize in science, honors Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey M. Friedman, who discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates food intake and body weight. Friedman, who is the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and hea...
Paul Greengard receives Karolinska Institutet’s Bicentennial Gold Medal
Paul Greengard, a Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, will receive the Karolinska Institutet’s Bicentennial Gold Medal, the Swedish medical university announced today. This medal is the highest award conferred by the Karolinska Institutet during its 200th anniversary ...
Rockefeller postdoc named finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Agnel Sfeir, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, has been named a finalist in the fourth annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Charitable Foundation to recognize the contributions of young scientis...
Winrich Freiwald named Pew Scholar
Winrich Freiwald, a cognitive neuroscientist who uses imaging techniques to study the parts of the brain responsible for visual processing, has been named a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Freiwald will receive $240,000 over four years. Established 25 years ago, the Pew Scholars Pr...
Donald W. Pfaff and Bruce S. McEwen will share 2010 Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize
Two Rockefeller University scientists, Donald W. Pfaff and Bruce S. McEwen, have been named recipients of the 2010 Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize for their studies on the neuroendocrine control of behavior. They share the prize with Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute ...
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