Jackson, Rockefeller obesity researchers share Shaw Prize
Jackson Laboratory Professor Emeritus Douglas Coleman, Ph.D., a pioneer in obesity and diabetes research, will share the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine with Dr. Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The prize, issued by the Shaw Pr...Senator Rockefeller Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco
WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack d...The Lupus Foundation of America Applauds New Legislation that Caps Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs
... Thursday, August 6, 2009 by Senator John (Jay) D. rockefeller IV (D-WV). "We support and applaud Senator rockefeller for this important bill which will provide all Ame...Press Release from the Office of Senator John D. rockefeller About Lupus Lupus is an acute and chr...EHE International Supports The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
...indly donated a 115-square-foot window space at 10 rockefeller Plaza to showcase the many ways that ordinary citi...make Parkinson's disease a thing of the past. The rockefeller Plaza display will highlight these efforts, to sho...or more information, contact EHE International, 10 rockefeller Plaza, 4th Floor, New York, New York, 10020; 212.3...Professor Bruce Beutler Joins aTyr Pharma's Scientific Advisory Board
... of Chicago, and did his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC), before going on to build his research career at the rockefeller University, at UTSMC as a Howard Hughes investigator, and at TSRI. He has co-authored more than 300 papers that have been cited over 38,000 times by o...St. Jude Scientists Discover a New Mechanism Controlling Neuronal Migration
...ery of the migration of brain tumor cells." Other authors of the paper are Niraj Trivedi (St. Jude); and Eve-Ellen Govek and Mary Hatten (The rockefeller University, New York). The research was supported in part by the March of Dimes, the National Institutes of Health, a Cancer Center Support Grant and ...Key Protein May Lead to Faster Acting Anti-Depression Drugs
...Newswire-USNewswire/ -- Research conducted by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, Medical Director of The Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Center at The rockefeller University , Dr. Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt in New York and colleagues in Sweden, demonstrated in the Journal of Neuroscience that the brain protein...InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group Announce Partnership to Facilitate Open Innovation
...l, government and non-profit organizations such as Avery Dennison, Procter & Gamble, Pendulum, Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen, Solvay, SAP and The rockefeller Foundation. For more information on InnoCentive, go to: www.innocentive.com . InnoCentive and InnoCentive Challenge are registered tradema...A Window Into Parkinson's Disease
...ael Stern Parkinson's Research Foundation. Established in 2001 to support and expand the pioneering research of Paul Greengard, Nobel laureate, at The rockefeller University and select academic research centers in the U.S. Media contact: For information on The Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Foundation, p...Microbicide Developer Receives License for Novel HIV Microbicide Candidate From Merck & Co., Inc.
... Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the European Commission, the rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations, UNFPA, and the World Bank. http://www.ipm-microbicides.org ...Nobel Laureate Dr. Gunter Blobel to Speak at Florida Atlantic University
...a Raton. Gunter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. is the 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Professor, The rockefeller University, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He will present a lecture entitled, "Nucleo-cytoplasmic Traffic," highlighting his grou...Spit for the Cure Offers Unique Opportunity for Women to Participate in Breast Cancer Research
... (501) 526-7957. Additional researchers leading the study are V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the breast cancer program at the UAMS Winthrop P. rockefeller Cancer Institute (formerly the Arkansas Cancer Research Center), and Kristy Bondurant, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow. "It has become clear that an indiv...Cummings School receives Rockefeller Foundation grant
NORTH GRAFTON, MASS., January 30, 2008 - The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University a grant to assess veterinary health services in Indonesia and consider how advanced training of Indonesian veterinarians can enhance Indonesias capacity to...NYU, Rockefeller researchers find complexity of regulation by microRNA genes
Collaborating researchers at New York University and Rockefeller University have discovered that microRNA genes, which have recently been shown to have key roles in gene regulation, can team up and regulate target genes in mammals. MicroRNAs are a recently discovered large class of regulatory, non-...Telomeres resemble DNA fragile sites
...es of DNA at the ends of linear chromosomes, have an important function: They protect vulnerable chromosome ends from molecular attack. Researchers at rockefeller University now show that telomeres have their own weakness. They resemble unstable parts of the genome called fragile sites where DNA replication can ...Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa
...Tanzania, on 31 March. The collaboration has also received funding from the rockefeller Foundation and Google.org. SACIDS has made a 'smart partnership' with ...s for disease outbreaks across the human and animal health sectors from the rockefeller Foundation, on which LIDC will also assist. The SACIDS secretariat is funde...NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary
...The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation International Prize Program will celebrate its tenth anniversary on July 1, 2009, with an event to be held at rockefeller University in New York City. The 2009 Gruber Genetics Prize and Neuroscience Prize recipients will be announced live at the event, which will also i...Cells use import machinery to export their goods as well
...ding the cell's container ships. Jyoti Jaiswal, a research assistant professor and Sanford Simon, head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics at rockefeller University, examined the most common form of cellular export process called constitutive exocytosis, a continual ferrying of goods involved in the reg...Beyond 'ooh-ooh, aah-aah'-- expert on monkey communication kicks off Darwin series, May 5
...his B.A. in biological anthropology from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he was a student of Robert Hinde. He was a postdoctoral fellow at rockefeller University, where he and Cheney worked with Peter Marler and began an 11-year study of vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. That work is d...$10 million Simons Foundation gift supports new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study
... The rockefeller University and the Institute for Advanced Study in...llaborations, the Institute for Advanced Study and rockefeller will make joint appointments, including visiting p...ue initiative, which draws on the strength of both rockefeller and the Institute for Advanced Study, will open ne...New nucleotide could revolutionize epigenetics
...an DNA code, opening an entirely new front in epigenetic research. The work, conducted in Nathaniel Heintz's Laboratory of Molecular Biology at The rockefeller University, suggests that a new layer of complexity exists between our basic genetic blueprints and the creatures that grow out of them. "This is anot...CSHL-led team identifies key decision-point at which cells with broken DNA repair themselves or die
... together" in what he describes as "a lovely moment" of synthesis and discovery. An important collaborator in the work, C. David Allis, Ph.D., of the rockefeller University, had recently published a paper in Nature describing a critical component of the DNA damage-repair signaling cascade. The Tonks-Allis coll...W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to Hutchinson Center Scholar to Study How Cells Go Awry
... into the role of spatial structure in stabilizing cooperation among cells. Shou completed her postdoctoral work in quantitative biology at the rockefeller University and in computational biology at Memorial Sloan-Ketting Cancer Center. She earned her doctorate from the California Institute of Technology....Ten Top Latin American Scientists Named 2009 Pew Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences
...o apply to the program, and selection is made by a distinguished national advisory committee, chaired by Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, president emeritus of rockefeller University and a 1981 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. The 2009 Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences are: Arge...Techne Corporation Board Member Recognized
...ration Board of Directors, was recently recognized with two distinguished awards. On April 26, 2009, Dr. Dinarello, Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., of rockefeller University and Bruce Beutler, M.D., of The Scripps Research Institute , were the 2009 recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and ...Cliff Consulting, Inc. Adds Former Banking IT Executive Ashok Moorthy to Its Team
...argo, Blue Shield of California, and Kaiser Permanente, as well as non-profit leaders like the David & Lucille Packard Foundation, WestEd, and the rockefeller Foundation. ...Otonomy Introduces Scientific Advisory Board
...air cell loss in the cochlea. He joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School after completing his postdoctoral work in sensory neuroscience at The rockefeller University . Dr. Heller earned a Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University and conducted doctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Resear...Micromet Adds Sir Walter Bodmer and Bernard Fox to Its Advisory Panel for BiTE Antibody Therapeutics
...ry panel include professors Richard Flavell ( Yale University ), Michael Keating (MD Anderson), Ronald Levy ( Stanford University ), Jeffrey Ravetch ( rockefeller University ), and Anthony Tolcher (START). Sir Walter Bodmer holds a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University , UK, and, among several other appo...FasterCures Rewards Two InnoCentive Solvers for Innovative Ideas to Accelerate Medical Research
...l, government and non-profit organizations such as Avery Dennison, Procter & Gamble, Pendulum, Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen, Solvay, SAP and The rockefeller Foundation. For more information on InnoCentive, go to: www.innocentive.com . InnoCentive and InnoCentive Challenge are registered tradema...Rat Leptin Assay Kit from Immuno-Biological Laboratories, Inc.
Description:...dentified in 1950, results in profound obesity and type II diabetes as part of a syndrome that resembles morbid obesity in humans. Freidmanfs group at rockefeller University originally identified the obesity gene that encodes for Leptin in 1994. Leptin is a 16 KDa secreted protein produced by the ob gene. Adipos...