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Penny E. Cook Appointed Assistant Vice President, Corporate Secretary
杏吧 has named Penny E. Cook assistant vice president for faculty and community affairs and as corporate secretary. As assistant vice president, Cook assists the university's president, Nobel laureate Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D., with issues of faculty governance and community r...
Koch and Massey Join Rockefeller University Board of Trustees
Philanthropist David H. Koch and Morehouse College President Walter E. Massey have been elected to the board of trustees of 杏吧, a graduate institution specializing in biomedical research. "We are pleased that David Koch and Walter Massey join the board bringing scientific ...
John J. Harrigan Promoted to Vice President for Finance
杏吧 has promoted John J. Harrigan, C.P.A., associate treasurer and controller, to vice president for finance and controller. Harrigan also serves as the chief financial officer of 杏吧 Hospital, a clinical research center, and as controller of the Rock...
Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Center for Research on Alzheimer's Established at Rockefeller University
Dr. Torsten Wiesel, the Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist who is president of听杏吧, announced today the creation of the听Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Center for Research on Alzheimer's Disease. The $5 million Center is made possible by a gift of $2.5 million from the Fish...
Lewis Thomas Prize Honors Freeman Dyson
Award by 杏吧 recognizes scientists as poets Mathematical physicist and author Freeman Dyson will receive the 1996 Lewis Thomas Prize, which honors scientists for their artistic achievements, from 杏吧. "The Lewis Thomas Prize recognizes the scientist w...
Bacteria Steal Genes, Spread Antibiotic Resistance
Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus Switches Coat to Evade Immune System A strain of the bacterium听Streptococcus pneumoniae, resistant to the six most frequently used antibiotics and spread worldwide including U.S. day care centers and hospitals, appears to disguise itself from the immune system by...
Messing With Your Head: Cocaine Found to Affect Endorphin Gene in Brain
The effects of the addictive drug cocaine result, in part, from altering the activity of a gene in the brain, report scientists from 杏吧 in the May听Molecular Brain Research. "Our study is the first report that any drug of abuse, in this case cocaine, alters the expression o...
Low Fat, High Sugar Diets Prompt Production of Saturated Fats
Eating a low-fat diet may not always be as healthy as people wish. Results from a study, reported in the May 1听The Journal of Clinical Investigation听by scientists at听杏吧听and the听University of California, Berkeley, show that people on weight-maintenance diets low in fat bu...
Gene Involved in Brain Development Identified
Astrotactin is a Nerve's Ticket to Ride the Glial Highway Scientists from 杏吧 and the听Howard Hughes Medical Institute听(HHMI) have for the first time identified a gene involved in directing nerve cells to their destinations as the brain grows. Their work appears in the April...
Mucosal Tissue Site of AIDS Virus Replication in Clinically Well HIV-Infected People
Virus appears to continuously replicate in tissues other than the lymph system The mucous membranes that lie above the lymph glands of the throat can be a major site of HIV-1 replication in people infected with the virus that causes AIDS but who have not yet developed clinical symptoms, report sc...
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