Rockefeller University
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Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate and postgraduate education research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York.
Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university.
The university has been the site of many important scientific breakthroughs. Rockefeller scientists, for example, established that DNA is the chemical basis of heredity, discovered blood groups, showed that viruses can cause cancer, founded the modern field of cell biology, worked out the structure of antibodies, developed methadone maintenance for people addicted to heroin, devised the AIDS "cocktail" drug therapy, and identified the weight-regulating hormone leptin.
- See also: Education in New York City
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[edit] History
The original Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 by the oil baron and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, who had earlier (1889) founded the University of Chicago. The Rockefeller family has maintained strong links with the institution throughout its history; David Rockefeller, to give just one example, is the current Honorary Chairman and a Life Trustee. The Institute changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education.
Upon its organization in 1901, Hermann Michael Biggs assumed the directorship.
[edit] At A Glance
[edit] Rockefeller University Community
- >70 heads of laboratories
- 190 research and clinical scientists
- 360 postdoctoral investigators
- 1,000 support staff
- 150 Ph.D. students
- 50 M.D.-Ph.D. students
- 890 alumni
(approximate numbers)
[edit] Areas of basic interdisciplinary research
- biochemistry, structural biology and chemistry
- molecular, cell and developmental biology
- immunology, virology and microbiology
- medical sciences and human genetics
- neuroscience
- physics and mathematical biology
[edit] Health conditions under study
- addiction
- aging
- AIDS
- Alzheimer’s disease
- antibiotic resistance
- arthritis
- cancer
- Chagas disease
- cystic fibrosis
- diabetes
- heart disease
- hepatitis C
- hereditary diseases
- memory loss with aging
- neurological disorders
- obesity
- psoriasis
- schizophrenia
- tuberculosis
[edit] Faculty Awards
[edit] Nobel Prize Recipients:
[edit] National Medal of Science Recipients
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- 2003 James E. Darnell Jr.
- 1989 Joshua Lederberg
- 1986 George E. Palade
- 1979 Paul A. Weiss
- 1976 George E. Uhlenbeck
- 1974 James A. Shannon
- 1973 Frederick Seitz
- 1968 Detlev W. Bronk
- 1966 Fritz A. Lipmann
- 1965 Peyton Rous
- 1965 Donald D. Van Slyke
- 1964 Theodosius Dobzhansky
[edit] Members of the National Academy of Sciences
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- 2006 Titia de Lange‡
- 2006 Charles D. Gilbert
- 2006 Michael E. O’Donnell
- 2006 Jeffrey V. Ravetch
- 2005 C. David Allis
- 2005 Charles M. Rice
- 2003 Cornelia I. Bargmann
- 2003 Barry S. Coller
- 2001 Jeffrey M. Friedman
- 2001 Ralph M. Steinman
- 2000 Roderick MacKinnon
- 1997 Joel E. Cohen
- 1997 Bruce S. McEwen
- 1996 Elaine Fuchs
- 1995 Jan L. Breslow
- 1995 Paul Nurse‡
- 1994 Donald Pfaff
- 1991 A. James Hudspeth
- 1988 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
- 1988 Fernando Nottebohm
- 1988 Robert G. Roeder
- 1987 Emil Gotschlich
- 1985 Hidesaburo Hanafusa‡
- 1983 Günter Blobel
- 1980 Torsten Wiesel‡
- 1978 Paul Greengard
- 1975 Kenneth M. Case
- 1975 Christian de Duve‡
- 1975 Philip Siekevitz
- 1973 James E. Darnell, Jr.
- 1972 Vincent P. Dole
- 1972 R. Bruce Merrifield
- 1969 Norton D. Zinder
- 1959 Frank Brink
- 1957 Joshua Lederberg
- 1951 Frederick Seitz
‡ Foreign Associates
[edit] Members of the Institute of Medicine
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- 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
- 2002 Ralph M. Steinman
- 2000 Günter Blobel
- 1999 Barry S. Coller
- 1999 Paul Greengard
- 1998 Bruce S. McEwen
- 1997 Jan L. Breslow
- 1997 David D. Ho
- 1996 Torsten Wiesel
- 1994 Elaine Fuchs
- 1993 Jules Hirsch
- 1988 Emil C. Gotschlich
- 1971 Vincent P. Dole
- 1971 Joshua Lederberg
[edit] Gairdner Foundation International Award Recipients
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- 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
- 2003 Ralph M. Steinman
- 2001 Roderick MacKinnon
- 2000 Robert G. Roeder
- 1992 Paul Nurse
- 1986 James E. Darnell, Jr.
- 1982 Günter Blobel
- 1970 Vincent P. Dole
- 1970 R. Bruce Merrifield
- 1967 Christian de Duve
- 1967 George E. Palade
- 1964 Keith R. Porter
- 1962 Henry G. Kunkel
[edit] MacArthur "Genius Grant" Recipients
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- Robert Sapolsky
- Joel Cohen
- Mitchell Feigenbaum
- Albert Libchaber
- Robert Shapley
- Jay Weiss
[edit] Current Faculty
Neuroscience:
Cornelia Bargmann
Robert Darnell
Jeff Friedman
Mary Beth Hatten
Nathaniel Heintz
Donald Pfaff
Leslie Vosshaal
[edit] Faculty history
In the mid 1970's, Rockefeller succeeded in attracting a few prominent academics in the humanities, most notably Saul Kripke, a notable logician, philosopher of language, and expositor of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. More recently, its faculty were winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003.
Previous Faculty Members: Harry Frankfurt
[edit] Prominent alumni
Barbara Ehrenreich, social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.
David Baltimore, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 1975 for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. Has served as president of both The Rockefeller University and the California Institute of Technology.
[edit] Further reading
- Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., London: Warner Books, 1998.
- Hanson, Elizabeth. The Rockefeller University Achievements: A Century of Science for the Benefit of Humankind, 1901-2001. New York: The Rockefeller University Press, 2000.
- Rockefeller, David. Memoirs, New York: Random House, 2002.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Rockefeller University
- Rockefeller University Newswire
- Rockefeller University Hospital
- Natural Selections (an unofficial Rockefeller University newsletter)
