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Slightly abnormal blood test may point to a 'silent' form of hepatitis B
Silence isn’t always golden. In the case of hepatitis B, people with a past — and seemingly resolved — infection often don’t know that they still have a silent form of the disorder. Now, new research suggests that slightly abnormal results from a blood test, once thought to be a fleeting cur...
Final episode of 'Charlie Rose Science Series' airs April 7
The final episode of the “Charlie Rose Science Series,” which over the past 18 months has featured shows focused on the brain, longevity, stem cells, pandemics and other science topics, will air Monday, April 7. Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has served as cohost, with Charlie Rose...
Newly identified gene may prompt pancreas cells to form
Before a pancreas is a pancreas, it’s part of the endoderm, one of three layers of cells in a developing embryo that eventually form its organs. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now uncovered key genetic signals involved in how the pancreas begins forming, a finding they say might lead ...
First Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes awarded to infectious disease experts
The inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes, named after Rockefeller University’s prominent early-20th-century bacteriologist, were awarded to Brian Greenwood and Miriam K. Were, the government of Japan announced yesterday. Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London Sc...
New drug may help rescue the aging brain
As people age, their brains pay the price — inflammation goes up, levels of certain neurotransmitters go down, and the result is a plethora of ailments ranging from memory impairment and depression to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But in a long-term study with implications to treat these and ot...
Three geneticists win 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
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...
$4.5 million grant funds interdisciplinary fellowships at Rockefeller
The Leon Levy Foundation, a philanthropy created by the estate of former Rockefeller University trustee Leon Levy, cofounder of Oppenheimer and Company, has awarded a $4.5 million grant to the university to fund the Leon Levy Presidential Fellowships in Neuroscience. Designed to recruit young sci...
Announcements
Employee recognition events scheduled. Human Resources will honor employees who reach major milestones with two events in April. The employee recognition reception, to recognize employees who have worked at The Rockefeller University for 10 and 20 years, will be Thursday, April 3; the anniversary...
President Emeritus Joshua Lederberg dies at 82
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN His career spanned 60 years, more than a few fields of science and a presidential legacy of dramatic expansion. And throughout it all, Joshua S. Lederberg was valued as highly for his role as mentor, colleague and member of a global community as for his groundbreaking rese...
Neuroscientist Gerald Fischbach named visiting professor
by ZACH VEILLEUX A neuroscientist who spent his scientific career studying how connections between brain cells form — and who currently helps form connections between researchers studying autism — has been appointed a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. Gerald Fischbach, the second vis...
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