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The Rockefeller University is a private university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 which focuses 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
Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side is within an area surrounded by 59th Street, 96th Street, Central Park, and the East River....
 of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Its current president is Sir Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
.

Twenty-three Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 winners have been associated with the university.

The university has been the site of many important scientific breakthroughs.






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The Rockefeller University is a private university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 which focuses 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
Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side is within an area surrounded by 59th Street, 96th Street, Central Park, and the East River....
 of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Its current president is Sir Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
.

Twenty-three Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 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
Methadone

Methadone is a synthetic opioid, used medically as an analgesic, antitussive and a maintenance drug addiction#Anti-addictive drugs for use in patients on opioids....
 maintenance for individuals addicted to heroin, devised the AIDS "cocktail"
Antiretroviral drug

Antiretroviral drugs are medications for the treatment of infection by retroviruses, primarily HIV. When several such drugs, typically three or four, are taken in combination, the approach is known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART....
 drug therapy, and identified the weight-regulating hormone leptin
Leptin

Leptin is a 16 Atomic mass unit protein hormone that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure, including appetite and metabolism....
.

History

The original Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 by the oil baron and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller was an United States industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy....
, who had earlier founded the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 in 1889. The Rockefeller family
Rockefeller family

The Rockefeller family, the renowned Cleveland, Ohio family of John D. Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller , is an United States industry, banking, and political family of German American origin that made the world's largest private fortune in the History of the petroleum industry in North America during the late 19th and early...
 has maintained strong links with the institution throughout its history–David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller Sr. is an United States banker, statesman, globalist, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D....
, to give just one example, is the current Honorary Chairman and a Life Trustee. The Institute changed its name to The Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education.

Upon its organization in 1901, Simon Flexner
Simon Flexner

Simon Flexner was a physician, administrator, and professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania . He was the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation....
 assumed the directorship.

At a glance


The 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
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 recipients


2003 Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 2001 Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
 2000 Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard is an United States neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecule and cell function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system....
 1999 Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 1984 R. Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an United States biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis....
 1981 Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W....
 1975 David Baltimore
David Baltimore

David L. Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech....
 1974 Albert Claude
Albert Claude

Albert Claude was a Belgium biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Liege ....
 1974 Christian de Duve
Christian de Duve

Christian Ren? de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames-Ditton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a son of Belgium immigrants....
 1974 George E. Palade 1972 Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore

Stanford Moore was a United States of America biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, for his work on ribonuclease and for contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule....
 1972 William H. Stein 1972 Gerald M. Edelman 1967 H. Keffer Hartline
Haldan Keffer Hartline

Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiology who was a cowinner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision....
 1966 Peyton Rous 1958 Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an United States molecular biology known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes....
 1958 Edward L. Tatum 1953 Fritz Lipmann 1946 John H. Northrop 1946 Wendell M. Stanley 1944 Herbert S. Gasser 1930 Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner , was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of Blood type from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....
 1912 Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel was a French people surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912....


Lasker Award
Lasker Award

The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science....
 recipients


  • For Basic Medical Research
2007 Ralph M. Steinman
Ralph M. Steinman

Ralph Marvin Steinman, M.D., is an immunologist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University, who coined the term dendritic cells together with Zanvil A....
 2003 Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003....
 1999 Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 1998 Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
 1993 Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 1982 Hidesaburo Hanafusa 1975 Henry G. Kunkel 1969 R. Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an United States biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis....
 1966 George E. Palade 1963 Lyman C. Craig 1958 Peyton Rous 1948 Rene Dubos
René Dubos

Ren? Jules Dubos was a France-United States microbiology, experimental pathology, environmentalism, humanism, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal....
 1947 Oswald T. Avery
  • For Clinical Research:


1988 Vincent Dole
Vincent Dole

Vincent Dole was an United States doctor, who, along with his wife Marie Nyswander , worked in heroin dependency treatment. He pioneered the use of methadone as a maintenance opioid and his work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States....
 1978 Emil C. Gotschlich 1957 Richard Edwin Shope
Richard Edwin Shope

was an United States virology who was first to isolate an influenza virus, first to vaccinate animals against influenza, and first to identify the causative agent as a virus in the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic....
 1946 Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner , was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of Blood type from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....
 1946 Philip Levine (physician)
Philip Levine (physician)

Philip Levine was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion....
  • For Special Achievement in Medical Science:


2002 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1994 Maclyn McCarty
Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty was an United States geneticist.Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene....


National Medal of Science
National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral science and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics....
 recipients


2005 Torsten N. Wiesel 2003 James E. Darnell Jr. 1989 Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an United States molecular biology known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes....
 1986 George E. Palade 1979 Paul A. Weiss 1976 George E. Uhlenbeck 1974 James A. Shannon 1973 Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz was an :Category:American physicists and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz studied under Eugene Wigner at Princeton University, graduating in 1934....
 1968 Detlev W. Bronk 1966 Fritz A. Lipmann 1965 Peyton Rous 1965 Donald D. Van Slyke 1964 Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, also known as T. G. Dobzhansky, and sometimes Anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky was a noted genetics and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis....


Members of the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...

2008 Seth Darst 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
C. David Allis

Charles David Allis is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at Rockefeller University in New York City, United States....
 2005 Charles M. Rice 2003 Cornelia I. Bargmann 2003 Barry S. Coller 2001 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2001 Ralph M. Steinman 2000 Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 1997 Joel E. Cohen 1997 Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce McEwen

Bruce McEwen is the Alfred E. Mirsky professor of neuroscience and runs the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University....
 1996 Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular biology of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology....
 1995 Jan L. Breslow 1995 Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
‡ 1994 Donald Pfaff 1991 A. James Hudspeth 1988 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum 1988 Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm

Dr Fernando Nottebohm is a neuroscientist and is the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at Rockefeller University as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology....
 1988 Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003....
 1987 Emil Gotschlich 1985 Hidesaburo Hanafusa‡ 1983 Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 1980 Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W....
‡ 1978 Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard is an United States neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecule and cell function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system....
 1975 Christian de Duve
Christian de Duve

Christian Ren? de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames-Ditton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a son of Belgium immigrants....
‡ 1975 Philip Siekevitz 1973 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1972 R. Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an United States biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis....
 1969 Norton D. Zinder 1959 Frank Brink 1957 Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an United States molecular biology known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes....
 1951 Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz was an :Category:American physicists and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz studied under Eugene Wigner at Princeton University, graduating in 1934....
 ‡ Foreign Associates

Members of the Institute of Medicine
Institute of Medicine

The Institute of Medicine , one of the United States National Academies, is a Non-profit organization, non-governmental United States organization chartered in 1970 as a part of the United States National Academy of Sciences....


2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2004 Kanye O. West 2002 Ralph M. Steinman 2000 Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 1999 Barry S. Coller 1999 Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard is an United States neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecule and cell function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system....
 1998 Bruce S. McEwen 1997 Jan L. Breslow 1997 David D. Ho
David Ho

David Da-i Ho is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team....
 1996 Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W....
 1994 Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular biology of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology....
 1993 Jules Hirsch 1988 Emil C. Gotschlich 1971 Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an United States molecular biology known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes....


Gairdner Foundation International Award
Gairdner Foundation International Award

The Gairdner Foundation International Award is given annually at a special dinner to three to six people for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science....
 recipients


2007 C. David Allis
C. David Allis

Charles David Allis is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at Rockefeller University in New York City, United States....
 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2003 Ralph M. Steinman 2001 Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 2000 Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003....
 1992 Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
 1986 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1982 Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 1970 Vincent P. Dole 1970 R. Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an United States biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis....
 1967 Christian de Duve
Christian de Duve

Christian Ren? de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames-Ditton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a son of Belgium immigrants....
 1967 George E. Palade 1964 Keith R. Porter
Keith R. Porter

Keith R. Porter was a Canada Cell biology. He did pioneering biology research using electron microscope of Cell , such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia....
 1962 Henry G. Kunkel

MacArthur "Genius Grant"
MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978....
 recipients


Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky

Robert Maurice Sapolsky is an American scientist and author. He is currently professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery, at Stanford University....
 Joel Cohen Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Feigenbaum

Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum is a mathematical physics whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Poland and Ukraine Jewish immigrants....
 Albert Libchaber Robert Shapley Jay Weiss

Current faculty

Faculty are assigned to any of six different research areas defined by the university. However, due to the highly interdisciplinary culture that Rockefeller University fosters, many faculty are listed under several research areas.

Biochemistry, structural biology and chemistry

C. David Allis Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 Sean F. Brady Brian T. Chait Seth Darst Titia de Lange Madhav Dhodapkar David C. Gadsby Howard C. Hang Tarun Kapoor Magda Konarska Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 Tom W. Muir Michael O'Donnell Charles M. Rice Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003....
 Michael P. Rout Thomas P. Sakmar C. Erec Stebbins Alexander Tomasz Thomas Tuschl

Immunology, virology and microbiology

Paul Bieniasz Robert B. Darnell Madhav Dhodapkar Vincent A. Fischetti Howard C. Hang David D. Ho James G. Krueger Christian Münz Michel C. Nussenzweig F. Nina Papavasiliou Jeffrey V. Ravetch Charles M. Rice C. Erec Stebbins Ralph M. Steinman Alexander Tarakhovsky Alexander Tomasz

Molecular, cell and developmental biology

C. David Allis Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel

G?nter Blobel is a German American biologist.Blobel was born in Niegoslawice, Lubusz Voivodeship in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army....
 Ali H. Brivanlou Brian T. Chait Nam-Hai Chua Frederick R. Cross George A.M. Cross Titia de Lange Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular biology of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology....
 Hironori Funabiki Ulrike Gaul Mary E. Hatten Nathaniel Heintz Tarun Kapoor Magda Konarska Mary Jeanne Kreek Albert J. Libchaber
Albert J. Libchaber

Albert J. Libchaber is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University.He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986.EducationAlbert J....
 Tom W. Muir Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, Royal Society is a United Kingdom biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H....
 Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003....
 Michael P. Rout Thomas P. Sakmar Shai Shaham Sanford M. Simon Hermann Steller Alexander Tomasz Thomas Tuschl Michael W. Young

Medical sciences and human genetics

Jan L. Breslow Joel E. Cohen Barry Coller Robert B. Darnell Madhav Dhodapkar Jeffrey M. Friedman David D. Ho Mary Jeanne Kreek James G. Krueger John D. McKinney Jürg Ott Jeffrey V. Ravetch Charles M. Rice Ralph M. Steinman Hermann Steller Alexander Tomasz

Neuroscience

Cori Bargmann Ali H. Brivanlou Robert B. Darnell
Robert B. Darnell

Dr. Robert Darnell is currently the Heilbrunn Cancer Professor at the Rockefeller University and a Principal Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....
 Jeffrey M. Friedman
Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey Friedman, Doctor of Medicine, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity....
 David C. Gadsby Ulrike Gaul Charles D. Gilbert Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard is an United States neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecule and cell function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system....
 Mary E. Hatten Nathaniel Heintz Bruce W. Knight Mary Jeanne Kreek Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels....
 Marcelo O. Magnasco Bruce S. McEwen Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm

Dr Fernando Nottebohm is a neuroscientist and is the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at Rockefeller University as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology....
 Donald W. Pfaff George N. Reeke Jr. Shai Shaham Sidney Strickland Leslie B. Vosshall Michael W. Young

Physics and mathematical biology

Joel E. Cohen Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Konstantin A. Goulianos A. James Hudspeth Stanislas Leibler Albert J. Libchaber
Albert J. Libchaber

Albert J. Libchaber is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University.He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986.EducationAlbert J....
 Marcelo O. Magnasco Jürg Ott Eric D. Siggia

Faculty history

In the mid 1970's, Rockefeller succeeded in attracting a few prominent academics in the humanities, most notably Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosophy and logician, now emeritus from Princeton University. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center....
, a notable logician, philosopher of language, and expositor of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-United Kingdom philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language....
. More recently, its faculty were winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
 in 1999, 2000, and 2001, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
 in 2003.

Previous faculty members: Harry Frankfurt
Harry Frankfurt

Harry Gordon Frankfurt is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University. He previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University....
, Mark Kac
Mark Kac

Mark Kac was a Poles and United States mathematician of Jewish ancestry. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Hearing the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry....


Prominent alumni

  • David Baltimore
    David Baltimore

    David L. Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech....
    , 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
    California Institute of Technology

    The California Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering....
    .
  • Barbara Ehrenreich
    Barbara Ehrenreich

    Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, Democratic socialism and activism. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books....
    , social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
  • Jonathan Lear
    Jonathan Lear

    Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago....
    , 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
    Robert Sapolsky

    Robert Maurice Sapolsky is an American scientist and author. He is currently professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery, at Stanford University....
    , Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.


See also

  • John D. Rockefeller
    John D. Rockefeller

    John Davison Rockefeller was an United States industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy....
  • David Rockefeller
    David Rockefeller

    David Rockefeller Sr. is an United States banker, statesman, globalist, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D....
  • Rockefeller family
    Rockefeller family

    The Rockefeller family, the renowned Cleveland, Ohio family of John D. Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller , is an United States industry, banking, and political family of German American origin that made the world's largest private fortune in the History of the petroleum industry in North America during the late 19th and early...


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.


External links

  • (an unofficial Rockefeller University newsletter)