Rockefeller University

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The Rockefeller University
President
Richard P. Lifton
Academic staff
79[3]
Postgraduates232[3]
Location, ,
United States

40°45′45″N 73°57′20″W / 40.76250°N 73.95556°W / 40.76250; -73.95556
CampusUrban, 16 acres[4]
Websiterockefeller.edu
York Avenue gates

The Rockefeller University is a

postdoctoral education. It is classified as a "Special Focus – Research Institution".[5]
Rockefeller is the oldest biomedical research institute in the United States.

In 2018, the faculty included 82 tenured and tenure-track members, including 37 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 members of the National Academy of Medicine, seven Lasker Award recipients, and five Nobel laureates. As of March 2022, a total of 26 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Rockefeller University.[6]

The university is located on the

York Avenue. Richard P. Lifton became the university's eleventh president on September 1, 2016. The Rockefeller University Press publishes the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Cell Biology, and The Journal of General Physiology
.

History

Founder's Hall
The FDR Drive runs under the campus.

The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research—often called simply The Rockefeller Institute

The Rockefeller Foundation, a philanthropic organization, founded in 1913, is a separate entity, but had close connections mediated by prominent figures holding dual positions.[9]

The first director of laboratories was

Herbert Gasser.[10] He was succeeded in 1953 by Detlev Bronk, who broadened The Rockefeller Institute into a university that began awarding the PhD degree in 1954.[8] In 1965 The Rockefeller Institute's name was changed to The Rockefeller University.[8]

For its first six decades, the institute focused on

clinical science.[11] The Rockefeller Hospital's first director Rufus Cole retired in 1937 and was succeeded by Thomas Milton Rivers.[12] As director of The Rockefeller Institute's virology laboratory, he established virology as an independent field apart from bacteriology
.

In the 1940s, it hosted a "scientific team that overturned medical dogma" and "became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA."[13]

Rockefeller family

Rockefeller Sr visited the university just once, at the urging of Rockefeller Jr, who was enthusiastic about the institute.[1]: 475  Rockefeller Jr and his youngest son David visited more often.[14] David Rockefeller joined the board of trustees in 1940, was its chairman from 1950 to 1975, chaired the board's executive committee from 1975 to 1995, became honorary chairman and life trustee,[15] and remained active as a philanthropist until his death.[14]

Institutional changes

Rockefeller Institute Hospital was renamed Rockefeller University Hospital.

Archives

The archives of Rockefeller University are at the Rockefeller Archive Center, established in 1974 as part of the university and organized as an independent foundation since 2008.[16]

Organization and administration

Governance

  • More than 71 heads of laboratories
  • 200 research and clinical scientists
  • 210 postdoctoral investigators
  • 1,050 clinicians, technicians, administrative and support staff

To foster an interdisciplinary atmosphere among its laboratories, faculty members are grouped into one or more of ten interconnecting research areas:[17][18]

  • biochemistry, biophysics, chemical biology, and structural biology
  • cancer biology
  • cell biology
  • genetics and genomics
  • immunology, virology, and microbiology
  • mechanisms of human disease
  • neurosciences and behavior
  • organismal biology and evolution
  • physical, mathematical, and computational biology
  • stem cells, development, regeneration, and aging

Academics

Academic rankings
National
ARWU[19]26
Global
ARWU[20]43
U.S. News & World Report[21]62

Graduate degree programs

Rockefeller University admitted its first graduate students in 1955.[22] Today, about 255 graduate students are enrolled in the program, which offers doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and biophysics.[23] The university's organization on the basis of laboratories rather than a hierarchical departmental structure[24] extends to the graduate program, where laboratory research is the primary focus and students can meet degree requirements by participating in any combination of courses.[23] In partnership with neighboring Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller participates in the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program as well as a Tri-Institutional chemical biology Ph.D. program.[25]

Contemporary research

Rockefeller ranks highly in the CWTS Leiden Ranking,[26] an international ranking of research impact.

Rockefeller faculty have made contributions to breakthroughs in biomedical sciences.

squamous cell carcinoma in 2011, and also characterized the signaling pathways that drive malignancy.[35] In 2013, Leslie B. Vosshall’s laboratory identified a gene in mosquitoes that is responsible for their attraction to humans and their sensitivity to the insect repellent DEET.[36] Ali Brivanlou's laboratory developed a method to grow embryos outside the uterus for up to 13 days in 2016, allowing scientists to study the earliest events of human development.[37]

In 2020, many Rockefeller scientists shifted the focus of their research in response to the

antibodies from people who successfully recovered from COVID-19 to design a treatment that prevents people from developing severe disease.[39] Jean-Laurent Casanova identified genetic mutations that are responsible for a subset of unexpectedly severe cases of COVID-19.[40]

Campus and student life

Founder's Hall was the first building on Rockefeller's campus, built between 1903 and 1906.[41] It housed the nation's first major biomedical research laboratory and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.[42] Caspary Auditorium, a 40-foot-high, 90-foot round geodesic dome, was built in 1957 and hosts a variety of concert series and lectures.[43] The completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation–David Rockefeller River Campus in 2019, built along the East River over FDR Drive, added two acres to Rockefeller's footprint.[44] Rockefeller's campus houses a childcare center for researchers and other university employees.[45]

Graduate students are offered subsidized housing on campus and receive an annual stipend.[23] Student groups include People at Rockefeller Identifying as Sexual/Gender Minorities (PRISM), Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR), and the Science and Education Policy Association (SEPA).[46] The student-run publication Natural Selections is produced monthly.[47]

Promotion of women in science and outreach activities

War Demonstration Hospital, 1917

The Rockefeller University established a Women in Science initiative in 1998 to address the underrepresentation of women in the field.[48] It is founded mainly by female philanthropists.[49] The program includes scholarships and an entrepreneurship found to help increase the low number of female researchers that commercialize their discoveries.[50] In 2004 Rockefeller's professor Paul Greengard donated the full amount of his Nobel Prize to establish the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize given annually to a woman scientist in the field of biology.

Rockefeller also host diverse initiatives to promote science and culture: Parents & Science Initiative,[51] The RockEDU Science Outreach for K-12 students and teachers[52] that includes lab experience and professional development and The Lewis Thomas Prize for writing about science is given annually.

In addition, Rockefeller hosts the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts[53] and in collaboration with Cornell University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center it hosts the Tri-Institutional Noon concert Series.

In 2012, Rockefeller began participating in Open House New York's OHNY Weekend.[54]

Notable people

Nobel laureates

Year Nobel Laureate Prize Rockefeller Affiliation
2020 Charles M. Rice Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier Chemistry Postdoctoral fellow before prize awarded
2017 Michael W. Young Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
2016 Yoshinori Ohsumi Physiology or Medicine Postdoctoral fellow before prize awarded
2011
Ralph Steinman
Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
2011 Bruce Beutler Physiology or Medicine Postdoctoral fellow before prize awarded
2003 Roderick MacKinnon Chemistry Faculty when prize awarded
2001 Paul Nurse Physiology or Medicine President and faculty after prize awarded
2000 Paul Greengard Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
1999 Günter Blobel Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
1984 R. Bruce Merrifield Chemistry Faculty when prize awarded
1981 Torsten Wiesel Physiology or Medicine President and faculty after prize awarded
1975 David Baltimore Physiology or Medicine Alumnus; President after prize awarded
1974 Albert Claude Physiology or Medicine Faculty before prize awarded
1974 Christian de Duve Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
1974
George E. Palade
Physiology or Medicine Faculty before prize awarded
1972 Stanford Moore Chemistry Faculty when prize awarded
1972
William H. Stein
Chemistry Faculty when prize awarded
1972
Gerald M. Edelman
Physiology or Medicine Alumnus; Faculty when prize awarded
1967 H. Keffer Hartline Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
1966
Peyton Rous
Physiology or Medicine Emeritus faculty when prize awarded
1958 Joshua Lederberg Physiology or Medicine President and then faculty after prize awarded
1958
Edward L. Tatum
Physiology or Medicine Faculty when prize awarded
1953
Fritz Lipmann
Physiology or Medicine Rockefeller fellow before and faculty after prize awarded
1946
John H. Northrop
Chemistry Member when prize awarded
1946
Wendell M. Stanley
Chemistry Member when prize awarded
1944
Herbert S. Gasser
Physiology or Medicine Director when prize awarded
1930 Karl Landsteiner Physiology or Medicine Member when prize awarded
1912 Alexis Carrel Physiology or Medicine Member when prize awarded

Award affiliations taken from "The Rockefeller University » Nobel Laureates". Retrieved March 17, 2016.

Alumni

Rockefeller University, as seen from the FDR Drive, New York, NY, 2011

There are more than 1,262 alumni.[55]

Individual affiliates

Rockefeller University campus on the FDR Drive, New York, NY, 2021

Notable figures to emerge from the institution include

Barry Coller, who invented the Abciximab, currently serves as the Vice President for Medical Affairs.[59] In all, as of October 2020, 38 Nobel Prize recipients have been associated with the university. In the mid-1970s, the university attracted a few prominent academicians in the humanities, such as Saul Kripke
.

Controversy

Reginald Archibald, an

civil suits brought by former child victims, allowing them to make cases against the university.[62]

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