Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th street on York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. The original Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller, who had earlier founded the University of Chicago. The Institute changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education.

The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1901, 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. Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university, an amazing figure considering that Rockefeller University houses a relatively small number of labs (fewer than 80).

Faculty Awards

Nobel Prizes:

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 CarrelLasker Awards:

For Basic Medical Research

2003 Robert G. Roeder

1999 Roderick MacKinnon

1998 Paul Nurse

1993 Günter Blobel

1982 Hidesaburo Hanafusa

1975 Henry G. Kunkel

1969 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:

2003 James E. Darnell Jr.

1989 Joshua Lederberg

1986 George 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 National Academy of Sciences:

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 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 N. 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 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 Vincent P. Dole

1971 Joshua S. Lederberg Gairdner Foundation International Award:

2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman

2003 Ralph M. Steinman

2001 Roderick MacKinnon

2000 Robert G. Roeder

1992 Paul Nurse

1986 James E. Darnell

1982 Günter Blobel

1970 Vincent P. Dole

1970 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

Mitch Feigenbaum

Albert Libchaber

Robert Shapley

Jay Weiss

Faculty history

In the mid 1970s, 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

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

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

David Baltimore, Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 1975 for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. Past president of The Rockefeller University and actual President of the California Institute of Technology.

External links

* Rockefeller University
* Rockefeller University Hospital