Rockefeller postdocs Paige Arnold and Jim Castellanos are named Hanna Gray Fellows by HHMI
The awards are worth up to $1.5 million each over the course of up to eight years, covering both postdoctoral training and the transition to the start of an independent laboratory as a faculty member.
Inna Piscitello, a member of Jeff Friedman’s lab, has died
Piscitello had been a Rockefeller-based HHMI employee since 2019. She passed away on November 22.
New center for ambitious neuroscience projects comes to campus
The Miller Brain Observatory, which boasts some of the most advanced imaging technology in the world, is now accepting research proposals.
New faculty member studies how to leverage microbial forces to combat climate change
Avi Flamholz joins Rockefeller to investigate how microbes process nutrients and how that understanding can help develop tools to better anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Winrich Freiwald wins 2025 Rosenstiel Award
Freiwald is honored for his groundbreaking work revealing biological mechanisms of facial recognition.
Rockefeller community science festival draws hundreds for day of hands-on learning
Ten years after it first debuted, RockEDU’s annual festival for kids in kindergarten through grade eight, drew another excited and energized crowd.
Sebastian Klinge is racing to solve one of biology’s fundamental mysteries
Ribosomes manufacture the proteins that underlie nearly every biological function. Understanding exactly how they are assembled would reveal fundamental principles about how life itself is maintained.
Rockefeller launches new introductory curriculum for graduate students
The new programming, which spans the full month of September, is designed to teach essential skills and ground students in different research opportunities before lab rotations begin.
Alexander Tomasz, a trailblazer in the study of multidrug-resistant microbes, has died
His work has been crucial for the development of new antibiotics, which are urgently needed in a world where multi-resistant superbugs are a major threat to public health.
Svetlana Mojsov wins the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Mojsov’s discovery of GLP-1 and its critical role in the regulation of insulin secretion and blood glucose led to the development of a revolutionary new class of medicines.
