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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...
Milestones
Awarded: Pradeep Kumar, a Keck Futures Initiative grant from the National Academies. The grant, for $25,000, will fund a project titled “Interaction of Complex Biomolecules with a Complex Liquid: Role of Water in Biology.” Dr. Kumar is a fellow of the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology. ...
New Rockefeller faculty member studies mechanisms of DNA repair
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, has been named assistant professor and will join The Rockefeller University as head of the ...
To spread, skin cancer attacks immune dendritic cells
Dendritic cells are the sentinels of the immune system. When they’re alert and on guard, they will marshal the body’s immunosoldiers, T cells, to battle at the sight of harmful pathogens. But some diseases, such as cancer, are able to escape their watchful eye. By knocking out or beguiling dendr...
Rockefeller University names Robert Sapolsky 2008 Lewis Thomas Prize winner
Primatologist and Stanford University neuroscientist Robert M. Sapolsky has been named the recipient of Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2008. The award recognizes Sapolsky’s 2001 publication A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life...
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