News & HighlightsNews
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 ...
In the News
Joel E. Cohen: “Of today’s (almost) 7 billion people, nearly one billion are chronically hungry. Why? Roughly one third of grain is consumed by domestic animals. More than one sixth of grain goes into industrial products like biofuels and starch, seeds and other uses. Less than half of world cer...
In the News
Joel E. Cohen: “Of today’s (almost) 7 billion people, nearly one billion are chronically hungry. Why? Roughly one third of grain is consumed by domestic animals. More than one sixth of grain goes into industrial products like biofuels and starch, seeds and other uses. Less than half of world cer...
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...
Analysis of sperm differentiation reveals new mode of proteasome regulation
Early in development, cells undergo a controlled demolition that helps to shape their raw, pliable material into the specialized forms they must have to do their jobs as adults. The process by which this occurs is also crucial later in the cell’s life, to take out potentially dangerous trash that...
In the News
“Researchers found that painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen appear to decrease the effectiveness of a popular class of antidepressants that includes Prozac and Celexa. The finding, published Monday, may help explain why even the most effective antidepressants don’t work for everyone. At be...
In the News
“‘Dinochelus ausubeli’ was the name conferred earlier this year on a strange deep sea monster, a lobster discovered off the Philippine coast whose right claw is elongated into a fearsome pincer. The new species was named not after its discoverer, but in honor of the person under whose auspices...
Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce effectiveness of SSRI antidepressants
Scientists at Rockefeller University have shown that anti-inflammatory drugs, which include ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen, reduce the effectiveness of the most widely used class of antidepressant medications, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, often prescribed for depression...
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. ...
View
View