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New glimpse into early brain development shows how nerve cells move into position
Tucked into the lower, rear portion of the brain, the cerebellum plays key roles in motor learning, motor memory and sensory perception. It’s also where the majority of metastatic childhood brain tumors are located. Yet scientists still know very little about its early growth. Now, new research h...
Immune response to cancer stem cells may dictate cancer's course
Although stem cells hold incredible promise in the fight against certain diseases, in cancer they’re anything but helpful. In fact, mounting evidence is showing that a tumor’s growth and spread may depend on “cancer stem cells,” which comprise only a very small subset of the tumor. Now, a ne...
Announcements
New support group available. The Employee Assistance Program Consortium is offering a support group this spring for parents of infants and toddlers. The group will meet on consecutive Mondays beginning April 2; all sessions will meet from 12 to 1 p.m. at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. EAPC couns...
Fundraising campaign passes $400 million mark
by ZACH VEILLEUX After a record-setting year ending in June 2006, new gifts recorded in the past few months have pushed Rockefeller’s seven-year Campaign for Collaborative Science closer to its goal of bringing in $500 million to pay for initiatives outlined in the strategic plan. At present, $41...
Five new trustees elected to Board
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The Rockefeller Board of Trustees elected five new members in 2006, increasing the total number of trustees and trustees emeriti to 54. The new constituents include one lawyer, two chartered financial analysts, a private equity professional and — slightly unusual for Rocke...
Funding our laboratories
The Rockefeller University is unusual — in fact almost unique amongst U.S. universities — in providing ongoing significant direct support to individual laboratories as part of its routine annual operating budget. Much of this direct support is quantified by the application of a formula. Over the...
Mike Rossner takes the helm at The Rockefeller University Press
Managing editor of the JCB assumes responsibility for the university’s scientific publishing unit by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Mike Rossner, who has served as managing editor of the Journal of Cell Biology since 1997, was promoted to executive director of The Rockefeller University Press, effective De...
Paul Nurse co-hosts new PBS show with Charlie Rose
The 'Charlie Rose Science Series' brings current research, and researchers, into the public eye by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Paul Nurse is taking his views on science and society, well known in the Rockefeller community, to a wider forum: a new public television series. Dr. Nurse is co-host, with Emmy...
McKinney to head new lab at EPFL
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN John McKinney, associate professor and head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Infection Biology, has accepted a new appointment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, as a professor in the recently established Global Health Institute withi...
Milestones
Awarded: Science Outreach students Theodore Drivas (2006, Gadsby Lab, mentor Attila Gulyas Kovacs) and Christopher Loo (2005–06, Chua Lab, mentors Rafael Catala-Rodriguez and Nam-Hai Chua), semifinalists in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko...
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