Rockefeller University

Overview

Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University is a private graduate university in the Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller and was formerly named The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research or The Rockefeller Institute. It was the first biomedical academic institution in America. The university is a leading institution in various biomedical programs such as immunology, cell biology, and biology and biochemistry.

Rockefeller University Key Statistics

The university is organized based on laboratories, where earning a degree entails undertaking collaborative laboratory research activities. It has 70 world-class laboratories that offer an extensive range of fields of study that include undergraduate, postgraduate, postdoctoral, science outreach, and clinical training programs.

Rockefeller Institute has around 560 students on average, comprising 235 graduate students and over 325 postdoctoral students. About 13% of the student population are international students from countries worldwide. It houses around 79 faculty with a student-faculty ratio of 7:1 and 1,325 research and support staff.

Other Rockefeller University key statistics include its notable faculty, staff, and alumni. These include 26 winners of the Nobel Prize (e.g., Charles M. Rice, Michael W. Young), 20 National Medal of Science winners (e.g., Elaine Fuchs, Torsten N. Wiesel), five Breakthrough Prize winners (e.g., Richard P. Lifton), and seven The Royal Society awardees (e.g., James E. Darnell Jr.).

Rockefeller University Research

The university is a renowned research university in the United States. It is classified under “R2: Doctoral Universities-High Research Activity,” with an average annual research budget of $245 million. The university’s top three research fields are biology, genetics, and cell biology.

Its research papers have been published in publications like Nature, Science, and Cell. Rockefeller University research teams have been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences like the Neural Information Processing Systems, International Conference on Computer Vision, and IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.

The most cited research publication of Rockefeller University is Banchereau and Steinman’s (1998) "Dendritic cells and the control of immunity," published in Nature. This scholarly output has so far received a total of 21,316 citations.

The second most cited scholarly output is Cong et al.’s (2013) “Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems,” published in Science. A total of 19,965 articles, books, and other publications have cited this scholarly output.

The third most cited publication from Rockefeller University is Venter et al.'s (2015) “The sequence of the human genome," published in Clinical Chemistry. It has generated a total of 20,206 citations to date.

The university’s other most cited publications include Venter et al.’s (2001) “The sequence of the human genome” (Science, 18,406 citations) and Zhang et al.’s (1994) “Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue” (Nature, 17,839 citations).

Rockefeller University also has ten interdisciplinary research areas, 19 resource centers, and more than 180 laboratories. Some of these laboratories include the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics (under Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, and Structural Biology), Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics (under Cell Biology), and the Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules (Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology).