Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and physics.

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RockEDU’s long-running "Jumpstart" program at Rockefeller gives NYC high school students access to authentic research experiences and a chance to envision themselves as scientists.

🔗: https://t.co/6iKSTfKCDN

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Sean Brady's approach to finding and studying drug candidates has identified new types of antibiotics. With better gene sequencing technologies the promise of improved AI modeling, Brady says what he’s found thus far is just the tip of the iceberg.

🔗: https://t.co/LuEuwJzUBD

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This #AlzheimersandBrainAwarenessMonth we’re highlighting Rockefeller’s Nathaniel Heintz, whose work has helped identify abnormal pathways that feed into the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's, which may help stop the disease before these pathologies develop. @FisherCenter

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Chris Giuliano of the Birsoy lab has been selected as a 2026 #JCCFellow! Giuliano studies how microbes share and trade nutrients to help reveal novel ways to treat cancer.

Congratulations, Chris!

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Rockefeller's Winrich Freiwald is a 2026 winner of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation’s Prize for Translational Neuroscience! He is honored for his work deciphering complex neural processes in visual perception and social cognition. Congratulations!
https://t.co/KfOYdPdSWy

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A new protein-tracing platform from Rockefeller's Ekaterina Vinogradova and Paul Cohen in @CellCellPress reveals how fat and liver cells communicate during fasting, inflammation, and obesity, and links many of those signals to human disease.

🔗: https://t.co/McE4dcrcW1

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Alexander Lercher of the @RiceLaboratory studies how fighting off one virus changes the way the immune system responds to a totally unrelated one. His work is uncovering immune pathways that let our bodies adapt to viral threats over time. @SNForg

🔗: https://t.co/dwUkLvUeiC

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Rockefeller's @Steve_Bonilla has been named a 2026 scholar by @pewtrusts! Steve is recognized for his work investigating how RNA molecules fold into three-dimensional structures to drive complex biological processes.

Congratulations!

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A new study from Hermann Steller and colleagues identifies genetic mutations that interfere with the body’s ability to degrade the protein clumps characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

🔗: https://t.co/CuWZYAzUUv

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Last month, Rockefeller's Women & Science initiative held its annual spring event featuring our very own Vanessa Ruta, where she spoke about her pioneering research deciphering how smell works.

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In @ScienceAdvances: Findings from Rockefeller's #MacKinnonLab suggest that Piezo1 ion channels are activated by a specific membrane-derived cofactor that complements mechanical force. These channels help cells respond rapidly to mechanical cues. https://t.co/LyNJx4IT7h

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Maclyn McCarty was born #OTD in 1911. 🧪

🧬 McCarty won a Special Achievement Lasker Award in 1994. While at @RockefellerUniv, he made seminal and historic investigations which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity, ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics: https://t.co/ow4zePRVGH

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Gabriel Victora's team at Rockefeller has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how much of #evolution is shaped by chance?

Learn more in this Q&A with Victora and graduate fellow Ashni Vora: https://t.co/E44LFMgEqC

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25 years of @shahamlab 🎉
This week we surprised our dear mentor Shai. And a surprise it was!

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Congratulations to Lucas Tian, recipient of the 2026 Tri-I Breakout Award!

Lucas is being recognized for pioneering research that explores one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: how the brain uses existing knowledge to solve entirely new problems.

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A new study from Rockefeller's Victora lab in @CellCellPress reveals how germinal centers produce powerful antibodies through noisy rounds of mutation and selection, offering new insight into vaccine design—and larger themes in evolution.

🔗: https://t.co/asRL8NPIXZ

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We are pleased to congratulate Margaret Schroeder, PhD (@meschro) of @RockefellerUniv on joining the 2026 cohort of #LeonLevyScholars in partnership with the Leon Levy Foundation. 👏

Learn more about Margaret & meet each of the Scholars in our latest press release.

Read more: https://t.co/7ceiTW1pvH

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Congratulations to Rockefeller’s #classof2026, here’s to your next adventure! 🍾 🔬 🎉 #PHDone

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How can a brain no bigger than a poppy seed offer insights into the mechanisms by which humans navigate the world and make choices?

Rockefeller's Gaby Maimon addresses this question, and more, in a #SeekMagazine interview: https://t.co/ZUzWM3GEgf

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New preprint alert! 🚀 Across 60 human cancer cell lines spanning 20 cancer types, single-cell RNA+ATAC reveals pan-cancer cell-state heterogeneity, core gene-regulatory networks, and an EMT axis conserved across tissue origins.

Huge congrats to first author @xu_zxu, who recently defended his PhD, and Aileen Ugurbil from our lab @RockefellerUniv! https://t.co/4fNQJlJY3m