Rockefeller University

Die Rockefeller University ist eine Universität in New York City. Dort befindet sie sich zwischen der 63rd und der 68th street on York Avenue an der Upper East Side von Manhattan island.

Die Rockefeller University hat einen Schwerpunkt im biomedizinischen Bereich. Sie wurde 1901 als Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research von John D. Rockefeller gegründet. Die Umbenennung in Rockefeller University fand 1965 statt.

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Rockefeller University

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.

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

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.


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. 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 Life Trustee.

The Institute changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education.


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 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

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.

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