Katana VentraIP

Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classified as a "Special Focus – Research Institution".[5] Rockefeller is the oldest biomedical research institute in the United States.

Former names

The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901–1958)
The Rockefeller Institute (1958–1965)

Scientia pro bono humani generis

Science for the benefit of humanity

Private graduate-only university

1901 (1901)

John D. Rockefeller[1]

NECHE

URA

$2.32 billion (2020)[2]

Richard P. Lifton

79[3]

232[3]

Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City
,
New York
,
United States

40°45′45″N 73°57′20″W / 40.76250°N 73.95556°W / 40.76250; -73.95556

Urban, 16 acres[4]

rockefeller.edu

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 Upper East Side of Manhattan, between 63rd and 68th streets on 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.

More than 71 heads of laboratories

200 research and clinical scientists

210 postdoctoral investigators

1,050 clinicians, technicians, administrative and support staff

Academic rankings

26

43

62

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]

physicist and philosopher

David Albert

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.

David Baltimore

Durfee Professor of philosophy at Stanford University.

Michael Bratman

recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerald Edelman

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

Barbara Ehrenreich

psychologist, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder

Alice F. Healy

oncologist, lung cancer researcher, and academic, Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine

Roy S. Herbst

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington, Lasker Award winner who specializes in cell signaling by ion channels, neurotransmitters and hormones.

Bertil Hille

Professor in Chemistry at Hunter College with appointments at the American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medical College

Mandë Holford

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.

Jonathan Lear

HHMI Investigator and head of the Neurogenetics of Language Laboratory at Rockefeller University.

Erich Jarvis

physicist

Seth Lloyd

professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Harvey Lodish

professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Verve Therapeutics, recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Kiran Musunuru

Helmholtz Professor in the Division of Immune Diversity at the German Cancer Research Center

Nina Papavasiliou

Colombian pathologist who made the world's first attempt of synthetic vaccine for malaria. Recipient of Prince of Asturias Award in 1994.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University.

Vanessa Ruta

Stanford professor, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.

Robert Sapolsky

Rhodes-Thompson professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania

Amos Smith

HHMI Investigator and the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University.

Leslie B. Vosshall

professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Richard Wolfenden

professor and researcher, cancer domain.

Gian-Paolo Dotto

Paul and Mary Monroe Chair and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University and Founding Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Member of US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors

Martin Yarmush

Controversy

Reginald Archibald, an endocrinologist at the university from 1948 to 1982, allegedly abused dozens or hundreds of boys during his time at the university while studying growth problems in children, including molestation and photographing them naked.[60][61][62] Officials at Rockefeller University knew of the legitimacy of the claims for years before notifying the public.[61] The university and hospital issued a statement confirming that Archibald had "engaged in certain inappropriate conduct during patient examinations" and that they "deeply regret[ted]" any "pain and suffering" the former patients felt.[60] New York State passed a law known as the Child Victims Act, which created a one-year window for civil suits brought by former child victims, allowing them to make cases against the university.[62]

Official website