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Rockefeller joins Pfizer’s Global Centers For Therapeutic Innovation
The Rockefeller University is one of seven major research-based medical centers in New York City to join Pfizer Inc.’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, which aims to speed the translation of biomedical research into life-saving medicines. The partnerships, the first of which was established la...
Amy C. Falls appointed chief investment officer and vice president for investments
The Rockefeller University announced today that it has appointed Amy C. Falls as chief investment officer and vice president for investments effective April 4, 2011. Falls will oversee the University’s Office of Investments and manage the institution’s endowment, which has an estimated value...
Centerpiece CRC building to be called Greenberg Building
The Collaborative Research Center’s newly opened seven-story “bridging” building, designed to link Smith and Flexner Halls and house meeting rooms and informal spaces for collaboration, has been named in honor of Rockefeller University Emeritus Trustee Maurice Greenberg and his wife, Corinne. ...
The hospital turns 100
This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Rockefeller University Hospital, a unique institution that played a prominent role in biomedical discovery in the 20th century. When the hospital opened its doors in 1910 it became the country’s first clinical research hospital. A hospital unlike any...
New faculty member studies decision-making in flies
by ZACH VEILLEUX Understanding how fruit flies decide when to veer right and when to veer left is important work, not because it will help protect overripe bananas, but because it could lead to insights into how other organisms, including humans, make complex behavioral decisions. Gaby Maimon,...
Four new trustees join board
by JOSEPH BONNER The Board of Trustees elected four new members at its fall meeting on November 17: Holly S. Andersen, H. Rodgin Cohen, Surya N. Mohapatra and John M. Shapiro. The Board now numbers 40. Dr. Andersen is associate professor of medicine, attending cardiologist and director of educ...
New security measures to address recent computer thefts
BY ZACH VEILLEUX A series of recent criminal incidents on Rockefeller’s campus this fall, one of which resulted in a breach of sensitive data, has led the university’s administration to tighten security at the 64th Street gate, plug holes in its surveillance network and formalize an existing da...
Interdisciplinary retreats bring Rockefeller labs together on research
by BRETT NORMAN Last month, the heads of 11 Rockefeller laboratories and researchers working in them gathered at a conference center in Tarrytown, New York, for a weekend retreat focused on genome integrity. From mass spectroscopy to cell cycle and telomere maintenance studies, the scientists sha...
Karolinska collaboration program is revived
by ZACH VEILLEUX The university has restarted a dormant program begun in the early 1980s to fund exchanges between Rockefeller University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Under the terms of new agreements signed with Karolinska in June, selected postdocs and technical staff from Rockefelle...
2010 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize awarded to pioneers of cancer genetics
by JOSEPH BONNER Janet Davison Rowley and Mary-Claire King, pioneering cancer geneticists, are the recipients of the 2010 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize awarded by The Rockefeller University. Created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding female scientists, the $100,000 prize was presente...
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