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How an Alzheimer's peptide and a blood protein may combine to drive early disease pathology
New research suggests that amyloid-beta (Aβ) oligomers and the vascular protein fibrinogen may, when forming a complex, contribute to Alzheimer's disease.

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Rockefeller to expand residential composting program
With support from students and city policy, the university’s popular residential composting program is helping turn food waste into community benefit

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Mapping how nutrients move through the body to treat cancer
Kivanç Birsoy is uncovering the hidden metabolic pathways that cancer cells exploit. His work could also optimize strategies for using nutrition to improve human health.

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A community health hub that tends to body and mind
University Health and Wellness does everything from flu shots to biosafety level 3 testing.

Graduating class of 2025
43 students receive Ph.D.s at Rockefeller’s 67th convocation
Scientists Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim, philanthropist Marlene Hess, and Nobel-prize winner Michael W. Young were also given honorary degrees.

Latest awards & honors

Lamia Wahba receives the Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award
June 16, 2025
Svetlana Mojsov receives the Distinguished Medical Science Award from the National Library of Medicine
April 15, 2025

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The Scientist
A Serendipitous Shadow Brought the Brain’s Visual Pathways to Light
June 11, 2025
The Telegraph
How Exactly Do Weight-Loss Drugs Work – And Which Ones Are Best?
May 30, 2025
The New York Times
Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’
April 29, 2025
The New York Times
What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger
April 26, 2025

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