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Two new Trustees are elected to Board
by WYNNE PARRY The university鈥檚 Board of Trustees elected two new members in October 2014: Weslie Janeway, a philanthropist with a long-standing interest in genetics, and Michael J. Price, an investment advisor specializing in the telecom and technology industries. With their elections, the unive...
Rockefeller mathematician Peter Sellers dies at 84
by STEPHEN ALTSCHUL Peter H. Sellers, among the earliest researchers on DNA and protein sequence comparison, died of cancer on November 15, 2014, at the age of 84. An obituary was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 25. Here, I offer a brief, personal perspective. I first met Pete...
Richard Krause, former lab head and advocate for infectious disease research, dies
by WYNNE PARRY Richard M. Krause, a former Rockefeller University faculty member who later became director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and presciently warned against complacency toward infectious disease, has died at the age of 90. A fascination with the strep...
鈥楾alking Science鈥� lecture moves to January
The university鈥檚 annual holiday lecture for high school students, a tradition dating back to 1960, received a makeover this year. In addition to a new name, 鈥淭alking Science,鈥� which debuted in 2013, the lecture was moved to the second Saturday of January, and expanded to include a lunchtime pr...
Milestones
Awarded: Mary Ellen Conley, the AAI-Steinman Award from the American Association of Immunologists. The award, named for the late Ralph M. Steinman, head of Rockefeller鈥檚 Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the unders...
Cancer biologist and physician Sohail Tavazoie is promoted to associate professor
Sohail Tavazoie, head of the Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, has been promoted to associate professor, effective January 1. Tavazoie, who joined Rockefeller in 2009, works to understand how cancer cells become able to escape a tumor and invade other organs, a pro...
Physician scientist, interested in obesity-related disease, to join faculty
More than one in three U.S. adults is obese, a condition that puts them at risk for an alarming array of health problems, from diabetes and heart disease to cancer. But while obesity brings devastating consequences for many, some escape. For a select few, obesity causes little more than sore join...
$150 million from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and David Rockefeller launches major campus extension
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of 杏吧, today announced two leadership pledges of $75 million each from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and David Rockefeller to launch a major extension of the University鈥檚 campus on the East River. Dr. Tessier-Lavigne said, 鈥淭hese pledg...
Announcements
Tri-I TDI makes modeling software available. The Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc. (Tri-I TDI) has signed an agreement to provide access to Schr枚dinger鈥檚 materials science, biologics and small鈥憁olecule drug discovery suites to researchers within Tri-I TDI鈥檚 member insti...
Geneticist Joe Gleeson joins faculty as professor
by WYNNE PARRY Joseph Gleeson, a neurogeneticist who uses genetic sequencing to identify the causes of pediatric brain disease across its spectrum, including epilepsy, autism, intellectual disability and structural disorders, has joined Rockefeller as a professor and established the Laboratory of...
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