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Bruce McEwen awarded Goldman-Rakic Prize
Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen has received the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the world’s largest donor-supported philanthropy devoted to the support of research on brain and behavioral disorders. Mc...
Protecting the brain from overactivity
Alzheimer’s disease, depression and epilepsy all share a problem with a single brain chemical: glutamate. A neurotransmitter, glutamate is critical to the process by which individual brain cells send messages to one another and it plays a key role in learning and memory. Under normal conditions...
Immunologist Philippa Marrack to receive Rockefeller University’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The second annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international prize awarded by The Rockefeller University to an outstanding woman scientist, will be presented to immunologist Philippa Marrack on November 10. The prize, which was established by Rockefeller University Professor and Nobel l...
Margaret Hamburg elected to Rockefeller Board of Trustees
Rockefeller University’s Trustees have elected Margaret Hamburg, M.D., a former New York City Health Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and one of the youngest people ever elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, to serve on the university’s Board. “Peggy ...
Bacteria build walls to withstand antibiotics
Antibiotic resistant bacteria, which are proliferating in hospitals and causing major headaches for physicians, cheat death by finding ways to fortify their cell walls against the deadly drugs. The question is: how? New research from the laboratory of Alexander Tomasz shows that one gene, called ...
High blood pressure linked to gene regulation
Genes, as much as treadmills and salads, dictate blood pressure. But new research from Rockefeller University suggests that even the tiniest changes to our DNA can create a predisposition to hypertension. Scientists have focused much of their efforts to understand high blood pressure on a gene ca...
Jeffrey Friedman elected to Institute of Medicine
Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey M. Friedman, a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, it was announced toda...
Torsten Wiesel receives Rall Medal for human rights work
Rockefeller University President Emeritus Torsten Wiesel received the Institute of Medicine’s David Rall Medal, it was announced today. The medal is awarded annually to an IOM member who has demonstrated particularly distinguished leadership as chair of a study committee or other activity, showin...
Scientists warn nuclear catastrophe is 'an imminent danger'
Scientists gathered for a symposium held at Rockefeller University this week suggest that not enough is being done to address the threat of a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. In a talk titled “Our Last Best Chance” and timed to coincide with a new film of the same name airing on HBO...
A single protein is crucial to memory formation, scientists show
In the spaces between brain cells, where the long ends of the cells nearly touch one another, electrical and chemical messages are transmitted at a furious pace. New findings published in August and this week show that a single protein called Nova is responsible for regulating the quality of the ...
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