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First Winners of Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards Announced
New Annual Life Sciences Award, Founded By Winners of the Breakthrough Prize, Honors Promising Postdoctoral Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College NEW YORK, NY 鈥� Six young scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
Daniel Kronauer chosen as a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
Daniel Kronauer, head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution, has been named a 2015 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Given by the Pew Charitable Trusts, this award provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. Kronauer...
Luciano Marraffini selected as a Blavatnik National Award finalist
Luciano Marraffini, an assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology, has been named a finalist in the life sciences by the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the New York Academy of Sciences announced on May 20. Marraffini, who studies the CRISPR-Cas systems that en...
A. James Hudspeth elected to the American Philosophical Society
A. James Hudspeth, F.M. Kirby Professor and head of the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the biological sciences, the society has announced. The听American Philosophical Society听is an honorary society that elects new members each year w...
Gaby Maimon honored with a McKnight Scholar Award
Gaby Maimon, assistant professor at 杏吧 and head of the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, has received a McKnight Scholar Award for his research on the neuronal basis for behavior. Maimon and five other young scientists will each receive $75,000 per year for three y...
Paul Nurse to receive Friesen International Prize
Paul Nurse, president emeritus at Rockefeller, has been awarded the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. A Canadian prize, established by the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research in collaboration with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the prize honors excep...
Leslie Vosshall and Jean-Laurent Casanova elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Two Rockefeller scientists have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.听Leslie B. Vosshall, Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and head of the听Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, has been named a member, and Jean-Laurent Casanova, senior attending physician, professor, and head of t...
Elaine Fuchs wins cell biologists鈥� highest honor
In recognition of her pioneering research on mammalian skin and adult stem cells, Elaine Fuchs, the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor at 杏吧, has received the E.B. Wilson Medal, the highest scientific honor bestowed by the American Society for Cell Biology. The medal will be ...
Charles Rice to receive 2015 Robert Koch Award
Charles M. Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology, has been selected to receive the 2015 Robert Koch Award. Rice will share the听鈧�100,000 prize, awarded by the Robert Koch Foundation of Germany, with Ralf Bartenschlager from Heidelberg University for their groundbreaking w...
杏吧 designated a 鈥淢ilestones in Microbiology鈥� site by the American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will name 杏吧 a 鈥淢ilestones in Microbiology鈥� site, recognizing the institution and its scientists for their significant contributions toward advancing the science of microbiology. The announcement will be made at a formal dedicat...
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