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Congratulations to our latest award winners:

has been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Oxford. Dr. Bargmann was one of nine distinguished figures who was celebrated at Encaenia, the university’s annual honorary degree ceremony, on June 22. Dr. Bargmann is Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the .

Postdoctoral fellow John Maciejowski has won the 2016 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation. The national award, given by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., honors innovative young scientists based on proposals they submit that have the potential to drive biomedical research forward. Dr. Maciejowski, of ’s , will receive a $50,000 prize and a $5,000 donation to Rockefeller to support a seminar series.

has received the 2016 Robert Koch Award. Nussenzweig will share the €100,000 prize, given by the Robert Koch Foundation of Germany, with Alberto Mantovani from Humanitas University for their outstanding achievements in immunology. They will be honored at a formal ceremony in November. Dr. Nussenzweig is senior physician at ÐÓ°É Hospital and Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology.

The Rockefeller community welcomes its latest hires:

Oladapo Adaramola, Visiting Medical Student, Terieke Anthony, Animal Attendant, Comparative Bioscience Center
Alyssa Ayala, Research Assistant, Miles Barney, Research Assistant, Juan Carlos Bautista, Assistant Teacher, Child and Family Center
Erol Bayraktar, Postdoctoral Associate, Rachel Belote, Postdoctoral Associate, Dakota Blackman, Research Assistant, Sergio Botero, Postdoctoral Associate, Rachel Caron, Research Assistant, Michael Chang, Research Assistant, Courtney Chiu, Research Assistant, Darst Laboratory
Paolo de Angelis, Research Assistant, Lily Delalande, Research Assistant, Andreia Estrela, Postdoctoral Associate, Ava Farrell, Research Assistant, Shlomo Finkin, Postdoctoral Associate, Nussenzweig Laboratory
Erin Flansburg, Associate Controller, Finance Controllers Office
Kadija Fofana, Recruitment Specialist, Hospital Clinical Research Office
Peter Fridy, Postdoctoral Associate, Stefanie Gerstberger, Postdoctoral Associate, Jose Angel Gonzalez, Visiting Medical Student, Ava Griffith, Grants Management Specialist, Sponsored Research and Program Development
Zhanna Hakhverdyan, Postdoctoral Associate, Jason Hawkes, Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Madeline Hwee, Research Assistant, Peter Insley, Postdoctoral Associate, Wenyan Jiang, Postdoctoral Associate, Pauline Johnson, Clinical Research Specialist, Hospital Medical Science
Moonjung Jung, Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Theodora Karagounis, Visiting Student, Nussenzweig Laboratory
Sean Kelly, Postdoctoral Associate, Comparative Bioscience Center
Lodoe Lama, Postdoctoral Associate, Jongmi Lee, Research Associate, Youngmin Lee, Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Olga Leus, Human Resources Assistant, Human Resources
Logan Mendez, Research Assistant, Katrina Millard, Clinical Research Nurse Practitioner, Nussenzweig Laboratory
Stefannie Moak, Research Assistant, Monica Mugnier, Postdoctoral Associate, Joy Pai, Bioinformatics Specialist, Nussenzweig Laboratory
Corrine Quirk, Research Assistant, Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, Visiting Student, Nussenzweig Laboratory
Tshering Sherpa, Research Assistant, Johanna Sotiris, Research Support Specialist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Resource Center
Mukesh Babu Sundara Babu, Information Security Analyst, Information Technology
Mahira Tiwana, Research Assistant, Donovan Ventimiglia, Postdoctoral Associate, Hanbin Wang, Research Assistant,

The following researchers have been promoted:

Stylianos Bournazos, to Research Assistant Professor, Juana Gonzalez, to Senior Research Associate, Eve-Ellen Govek, to Staff Scientist, Yuval Itan, to Research Assistant Professor,