历史

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 in 1889. 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 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 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 recipients

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 Carrel

Lasker Award recipients

• For Basic Medical Research

2007 Ralph M. Steinman

2003 Robert G. Roeder

1999 Roderick MacKinnon

1998 Paul Nurse

1993 Günter Blobel

1982 Hidesaburo Hanafusa

1975 Henry G. Kunkel

1969 R. 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 Edwin 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 recipients

2008 Elaine Fuchs

2005 Torsten N. Wiesel

2003 James E. Darnell Jr.

1989 Joshua Lederberg

1986 George E. 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

Members of the National Academy of Sciences

2009 Eric Siggia

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

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 S. 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 Wiesel

1978 Paul Greengard

1975 Christian de Duve

1975 Philip Siekevitz

1973 James E. Darnell, Jr.

1972 R. Bruce Merrifield

1969 Norton D. Zinder

1959 Frank Brink

1957 Joshua Lederberg

1951 Frederick Seitz

Foreign Associates

Members of the Institute of Medicine

2009 Michel C. Nussenzweig

2007 Jeffrey Ravetch

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

Gairdner Foundation International Award recipients

2007 C. David Allis

2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman

2003 Ralph M. Steinman

2001 Roderick MacKinnon

2000 Robert G. Roeder

1992 Paul Nurse

1986 James E. Darnell, Jr.

1982 Günter Blobel

1970 Vincent P. Dole

1970 R. 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

Mitchell Feigenbaum

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

Günter Blobel

Sean F. Brady

Brian T. Chait

Seth Darst

Titia de Lange

David C. Gadsby

Howard C. Hang

Tarun Kapoor

Magda Konarska

Roderick MacKinnon

Tom W. Muir

Michael O'Donnell

Charles M. Rice

Robert G. Roeder

Michael P. Rout

Thomas P. Sakmar

Agata Smorzewska

C. Erec Stebbins

Alexander Tomasz

Thomas Tuschl

Immunology, virology and microbiology

Paul Bieniasz

Sean F. Brady

Jean-Laurent Casanova

Robert B. Darnell

Madhav Dhodapkar

Vincent A. Fischetti

Howard C. Hang

David D. Ho

A. James Hudspeth

James G. Krueger

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

Ali H. Brivanlou

Brian T. Chait

Nam-Hai Chua

Frederick R. Cross

George A.M. Cross

Titia de Lange

Elaine Fuchs

Hironori Funabiki

Ulrike Gaul

Mary E. Hatten

Nathaniel Heintz

Tarun Kapoor

Magda Konarska

Mary Jeanne Kreek

Albert J. Libchaber

Tom W. Muir

Paul Nurse

Robert G. Roeder

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

Jeffrey M. Friedman

David C. Gadsby

Ulrike Gaul

Charles D. Gilbert

Paul Greengard

Mary E. Hatten

Nathaniel Heintz

Bruce W. Knight

Mary Jeanne Kreek

Roderick MacKinnon

Marcelo O. Magnasco

Bruce S. McEwen

Fernando Nottebohm

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

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, 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, and 2001, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003.

Previous faculty members: Harry Frankfurt, Mark Kac

Prominent alumni

• David Albert
• 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.
• Barbara Ehrenreich, social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
• Jonathan Lear, 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.
• Seth Lloyd
• Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.
• Richard Wolfenden, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• John D. Rockefeller
• David Rockefeller
• Rockefeller family

参考文献

扩展阅读

• 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

• The Rockefeller University
• The Rockefeller University Newswire
• The Rockefeller University Hospital
• The Rockefeller University Press
• Natural Selections (an unofficial Rockefeller University newsletter)