Mary Frances Lyon to receive Rockefeller's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
... The prize, awarded by Rockefeller University, was established by Paul Greengard, Rockefeller's Vincent Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, and his wife, sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard. Dr. Greengard donated his entire monetary share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Rockefeller and, in partnership with gener...Rockefeller University receives $45 million from NIH for clinical and translational science
The National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health announced today that Rockefeller University has been awarded one of the first Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), a component of the NIH Roadmap designed to transform clinical and translational research so that new treatments can be developed more efficiently and delivered more quickly to patients. The...Rockefeller researchers discover a biological clock within a clock
Just as a pocket watch requires a complex system of gears and springs to keep it ticking precisely, individual cells have a network of proteins and genes that maintain their own internal clock -- a 24-hour rhythm that, in humans, regulates metabolism, cell division, and hormone production, as well as the wake-sleep cycle. Studying this "circadian" rhythm in fruit flies, which have genes that are...Rockefeller University's Titia de Lange receives NIH Pioneer Award
Rockefeller University's Titia de Lange, Ph.D., is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, the NIH announced today. She will receive up to $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years to fund research that will examines how cells respond to DNA damage.... ...The Pioneer Award recognizes scientists who are taking innovative approaches to address major areas i...Thomas Eisner to receive 2005 Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
A world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution, Thomas Eisner, Ph.D., has been chosen to receive The Rockefeller University's 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Eisner will receive the prize, and give a lecture titled "The Ruling Class: Tales of Insect Survival," on Tuesday, October 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Rockefeller University's Caspary Auditorium....... The Lewis Thomas...Rockefeller researchers show evidence of asymmetric cell division in mammalian skin
It took almost 10 years for Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University, to find a postdoctoral fellow who shared her curiosity for the direction of cell divisions in the skin. Then Terry Lechler, Ph.D., came along and the result is a new paper published online last week in Nature detailing how asymmetric cell divisions are essential for skin deve...Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for a grant offer from Foundation for NIH
A team of researchers led by Rockefeller University immunologist Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., has been selected for a grant offer from the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) of $14 million to support the design of novel vaccines that stimulate multiple components of the body's immune response, including those that have been difficult to target with existing vaccine approaches....... The project is among 4...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
In 2005, Weill Medical College of Cornell University launched a new stem cell center, the Ansary Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics, to focus on finding ways to boost the growth of adult stem cells for therapeutic purposes. Among Weill Cornell's pioneering contributions to stem cell biology are the discovery of vascular stem cells in the adult bone marrow that can contribute to wound healing and b...NYU, Rockefeller researchers find complexity of regulation by microRNA genes
Collaborating researchers at New York University and Rockefeller University have discovered that microRNA genes, which have recently been shown to have key roles in gene regulation, can team up and regulate target genes in mammals. MicroRNAs are a recently discovered large class of regulatory, non-coding genes, which bind to partially complementary sites in target messenger RNA to regulate their...