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Awarded: Nam-Hai Chua, the Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research from the American Society of Plant Biologists. Dr. Chua, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and head of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, is honored for his development of fundamental tools essential to co...
Rockefeller immunologist receives Gates Foundation Grand Challenges grant
Rockefeller University has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Jean-Laurent Casanova, head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, aim...
New faculty member seeks secrets of intestinal immunity
by ZACH VEILLEUX The skin may be our first line of defense against infection, but its job is easy compared to our intestines. There the body must cope with a constant stream of foreign antigens from our food as well as a flourishing ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and parasites. It must not only f...
Scientists identify potential new target for schizophrenia drugs
Rockefeller University scientists have identified a protein that boosts the signaling power of a receptor involved in relaying messages between brain cells, a finding that suggests a new target for the development of treatments for schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. The protein, called Nor...
Ralph M. Steinman receives 2010 Heineken Prize for Medicine
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine to Ralph M. Steinman “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in the immune response.” Awarded since 1989 to researchers and others in the medical field, the prize consists of a c...
Paul Nurse to resign as Rockefeller president to become president of Royal Society of London in December
Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University’s president since 2003, will leave the university in December 2010 to assume the presidency of the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society of London is the British equivalent of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The president of the Royal Society acts...
Titia de Lange receives AACR Clowes Award
Titia de Lange, a cell biologist who studies how the erosion of chromosome ends is related to the development of cancer, was awarded the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research this week. de Lange, who is the Leon Hess Professor at Rockefeller and an Ameri...
Cell division orchestrated by multiple oscillating proteins, new research finds
Cell division is a crucial but dangerous business. It unfolds in a cycle of many steps, including DNA replication, spindle formation, mitosis and others, and they must happen in the right order to prevent abnormal cell death and cancer formation. New research from Rockefeller University examines...
New gene for hair loss identified
A newly identified gene connected to hair growth may inform future treatments for male pattern baldness, says a team of researchers from Rockefeller, Columbia and Stanford Universities. The scientists found that the gene, called APCDD1, causes a type of progressive hair loss known as hereditary ...
New probe technology illuminates the activation of light-sensing cells
Ultimately, Charles Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful” can be boiled down to a scant 20 or so amino acids, the basic building blocks of life. From this parsimonious palette, nature paints the proteins that make up the wild diversity of life on earth, from the simple...
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