Rockefeller University

Information about Rockefeller University

Founder's Hall

Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on basic research in the biomedical fields and offers graduate and postgraduate education. It is located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of the 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

History

The original Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 by the oil baron and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, who had earlier founded the University of Chicago in 1889. 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.

At A Glance

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)

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

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

Faculty Awards

Nobel Prize Recipients

:2003 Roderick MacKinnon

:2001 Paul Nurse

:2000 Paul Greengard

:1999 Günter Blobel

:1984 R. Bruce Merrifield

:1981 Torsten Wiesel

:1975 David Baltimore

:1974 Albert Claude

:1974 Christian de Duve

:1974 George E. Palade

:1972 Stanford Moore

:1972 William H. Stein

:1972 Gerald M. Edelman

:1967 H. Keffer Hartline

:1966 Peyton Rous

:1958 Joshua Lederberg

:1958 Edward L. Tatum

:1953 Fritz Lipmann

:1946 John H. Northrop

:1946 Wendell M. Stanley

:1944 Herbert S. Gasser

:1930 Karl Landsteiner

:1912 Alexis Carrel

Lasker Award Recipients

For Basic Medical Research

:2007 Ralph M. Steinman

:2003 Robert G. Roeder

:1999 Roderick MacKinnon

:1998 Paul Nurse

:1993 Günter Blobel

:1982 Hidesaburo Hanafusa

:1975 Henry G. Kunkel

:1969 R. Bruce Merrifield

:1966 George E. Palade

:1963 Lyman C. Craig

:1958 Peyton Rous

:1948 Rene Dubos

:1947 Oswald T. Avery

For Clinical Research:

:1988 Vincent Dole

:1978 Emil C. Gotschlich

:1957 Richard E. Shope

:1946 Karl Landsteiner

:1946 Philip Levine (physician)

For Special Achievement in Medical Science:

:2002 James E. Darnell, Jr.

:1994 Maclyn McCarty

National Medal of Science Recipients

:2005 Torsten N. Wiesel

: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

Members of the National Academy of Sciences

:2007 Albert Libchaber

:2007 Michael W. Young

: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 Christian de Duve^‡

:1975 Philip Siekevitz

:1973 James E. Darnell, Jr.

:1972 R. Bruce Merrifield

:1969 Norton D. Zinder

:1959 Frank Brink

:1957 Joshua Lederberg

:1951 Frederick Seitz

^‡ Foreign Associates

Members of the Institute of Medicine

: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 Joshua Lederberg

Gairdner Foundation International Award Recipients

:2007 C. David Allis

: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

MacArthur "Genius Grant" Recipients

:Robert Sapolsky

:Joel Cohen

:Mitchell Feigenbaum

:Albert Libchaber

:Robert Shapley

:Jay Weiss

Current Faculty

Neuroscience:

Cornelia Bargmann

Robert Darnell

Jeff Friedman

Paul Greengard

Mary Beth Hatten

Nathaniel Heintz

Bruce McEwen

Fernando Nottebohm

Donald Pfaff

Leslie Vosshall

A. James Hudspeth

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

Prominent alumni

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.

Barbara Ehrenreich, social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.

Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, who specializes in Aristotle and psychoanalysis.

Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.

References

External links

Rockefeller University
Rockefeller University Newswire
Rockefeller University Hospital
Natural Selections (an unofficial Rockefeller University newsletter)

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