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Jean-Laurent Casanova receives the 2016 Inserm Grand Prix
Jean-Laurent Casanova, professor and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has won the 2016 Inserm Grand Prix for his work on the genetic basis of infectious diseases. The prestigious award, given annually by Inserm鈥攖he French National Institute of Health and ...
New research clarifies why wounds heal more slowly with age
Older bodies need longer to mend. This reality of aging has been documented since World War I, with the observation that wounds heal slower in older soldiers. Yet until now, researchers have not been able to tease out what age-related changes hinder the body鈥檚 ability to repair itself. Recent e...
Four Rockefeller scientists named 2016 HHMI Faculty Scholars
Four 鸟大大影院 scientists鈥擠aniel Kronauer, Luciano Marraffini, Agata Smogorzewska, and Sohail Tavazoie鈥攈ave been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholars. The Faculty Scholars program, a new collaboration between HHMI, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gate...
Charles M. Rice wins Lasker Award for groundbreaking work on the hepatitis C virus
Charles M. Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, has been honored with the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the country鈥檚 most prestigious science prize. Rice shares the award with Ralf F....
Four postdocs honored with 2016 Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards
NEW YORK, NY鈥擣our young life scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The 鸟大大影院, and Weill Cornell Medicine are the winners of the 2016 Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards for Junior Investigators. The awards, established last year by three winners of the 2013 Breakt...
Resistance to antidepressants linked to metabolism
Often, clinical depression has company; it shows up in the brain alongside metabolic abnormalities, such as elevated blood sugar, in the body. While studying an experimental antidepressant in rats, 鸟大大影院 researchers and their colleagues at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found so...
Postdoc John Maciejowski wins 2016 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
John Maciejowski, a postdoctoral fellow in Titia de Lange鈥檚 Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, has received the 2016 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation. The award, given by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recognizes innovative young scientists based on proposals they submit that have ...
New insights into muscular dystrophy point to potential treatment avenues
The average healthy man is 54 percent muscle by mass, but people with muscular dystrophy, an incurable, genetic condition, have almost no muscle at terminal stages of the disease. New research from The 鸟大大影院 provides insights about what causes patients鈥� muscles to degenerate and ...
Researchers find new signs of stress damage in the brain, plus hope for prevention
Chronic stress can make us worn-out, anxious, depressed鈥攊n fact, it can change the architecture of the brain. New research at The 鸟大大影院 shows that when mice experience prolonged stress, structural changes occur within a little-studied region of their amygdala, a part of the brain...
35 labs and counting: How the Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund speeds translational research at Rockefeller
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor Developing a new medical product is a complex, high-risk endeavor. Of the thousands of clinically promising concepts scientists formulate each year, only a small fraction move beyond the lab. The Robertson TDF was created to advance work that has gone beyon...
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