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Research identifies early childhood conditions that lead to adult health disparities
The origins of many adult diseases can be traced to early negative experiences associated with social class and other markers of disadvantage. Confronting the causes of adversity before and shortly after birth may be a promising way to improve adult health and reduce premature deaths, researchers...
Misreading of histone code linked to human cancer
The development of blood from stem cell to fully formed blood cell follows a genetically determined program. When it works properly, blood formation stops when it reaches maturity. But when it doesn’t, genetic mutations can prevent the stop signal and cause the developing cells to turn cancerous....
Genetic profiling reveals genes active in the earliest brain circuit construction
Long before the brain’s neurons can facilitate life’s big decisions, they have to find their own destiny in the rapidly developing embryo. In the lingo of neurobiologists, they are “fated” very early on to become certain types of cells, over time traveling to and organizing the various struc...
Announcements
Convocation is June 11. With 41 graduates, the class of 2009 is Rockefeller’s largest yet. Due to the large number of graduates, this year’s Convocation has been divided into a morning presentation ceremony and an afternoon hooding ceremony. The schedule of events: 10 a.m. Presentation of Gradua...
Alumna Agata Smogorzewska named to faculty
by THANIA BENIOS Agata Smogorzewska, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on DNA repair and on the molecular basis of Fanconi anemia, a genomic instability syndrome that leads to leukemia and other forms of cancer, is Rockefeller University’s newest faculty recruit. The 2002 Rockefeller a...
Karen Booth to head Child and Family Center
by ZACH VEILLEUX Karen Booth, a teacher and administrator with over 35 years of experience in early childhood education, has been named director of the university’s Child and Family Center. She will take over the center’s operations this summer, replacing Marjorie Goldsmith, who is leaving afte...
Telomerase researchers honored with Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Defenders of DNA. From left to right, the 2008 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize recipients Vicki Lundblad, Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn. The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rockefeller University’s annual award for outstanding women in science, was presented th...
Hidesaburo Hanafusa, professor emeritus, dies at 79
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN As an innovative researcher, spirited colleague and devoted mentor, Hidesaburo Hanafusa’s renown reached around the globe. Though he retired from The Rockefeller University and returned to his native Japan more than a decade ago, his influence as a member of the Rockefelle...
Caremark to save Rockefeller $150,000 per year
by ZACH VEILLEUX A decision to replace the company that manages prescription drug benefits for personnel enrolled in The Rockefeller University Group Health Care Expense plan, implemented in March, is expected to result in cost savings of at least $150,000 per year, according to Virginia Huffman,...
Heredity at the hospital
In 1944, Rockefeller scientists Oswald T. Avery, Colin M. MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty made the landmark discovery that DNA is the molecule responsible for carrying genetic information. Sixty-five years later, dozens of colleagues, family members and admirers gathered in the first-floor lobby of Th...
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