The Rockefeller University
Rockefeller University invented the modern bioscience institute and has spent the last 124 years perfecting it. Recognized around the world as one of the most highly regarded scientific institutions, Rockefeller draws talent from around the world in pursuit of one mission: to conduct science for the benefit of humanity. The research underway in our labs today will transform medicine tomorrow. A place of both quiet contemplation and intense scientific energy, our unique campus is the backdrop to a culture that values both independence and collaboration. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion benefit our mission to advance the best and brightest scientists the world has to offer. Our labs employ the latest technology to answer the toughest questions in their fields, with New York City, a burgeoning hub for biomedical translation, providing a mecca for culture and ideas outside our campus gates. Rockefeller’s culture is built on genuine dedication to promoting scientific discovery and excellence, as evidenced by our unparalleled track record of success: our scientists have won a collective 26 Nobel Prizes, 26 Lasker Awards, and 20 National Medals of Science. Rockefeller’s philosophy of investing in brilliant, innovative individuals extends to our students and postdocs, who collaborate with their mentors and receive the scientific foundation they need to succeed in academia, in industry, and in policy. We are a modern, thriving institution: Over the past 10 years we have invested over $2 billion in new facilities, scientific equipment, faculty recruitment, and research support. To work at Rockefeller is to support groundbreaking science, paving the way towards tomorrow’s discoveries. Success comes from the strength of our community, and we invite you to learn more at www.rockefeller.edu.www.rockefeller.edu
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Nov 2, 2026
Felicia MadisonHOST
You know who
Laurie GarrettGUEST
first thought about that? Joshua Lederberg, who was a Nobel laureate, one of the greats, was at Rockefeller University for many years.
Laurie GarrettGUEST
And he thought about it when he was, I think at the time, the youngest Nobel laureate in history.
Laurie GarrettGUEST
I think he was like 33 or 34, something unbelievable.
Thomas TängdénHOST
Mark studied medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, London, and specialized in infectious diseases at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where he attained his PhD.
Thomas TängdénHOST
He then moved to the Rockefeller University, New York, in 2001, and subsequently to University of Cape Town to work on tuberculosis and innate immunity.
Thomas TängdénHOST
He's the co-founder of South African Antibiotic Stewardship Programme and a member of scientific advisory committees of the WHO and other international organisations.
Thomas TängdénHOST
Welcome, Mark.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Sure sounds to me like this is somebody who was very much connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Sounds to me like somebody who knew all of Leon Black's secrets and somebody who Leon Black, well, you know, fellow travelers and all, Black apparently was impressed that David Rockefeller had appointed Epstein to the board of Rockefeller University, a scientific research university on the east side of Manhattan.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Yeah, because the Rockefeller family is just fantastic human beings as well.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Another group of so-called elites that I could do without, that I've had a belly full of.
Emily St. John MandelGUEST
At the time when that book came out, I was administrative assistant and It was a pretty great job.
Emily St. John MandelGUEST
I was an administrative assistant in a cancer research lab at the Rockefeller University in New York.
Emily St. John MandelGUEST
I enjoyed it in a lot of ways.
Emily St. John MandelGUEST
Really smart people, interesting environment.
speaker_4HOST
Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhodes is a highly educated, Harvard-trained pathologist.
speaker_4HOST
He's working for the incredibly prestigious Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
speaker_4HOST
The institute sends him to San Juan, Puerto Rico to study a massive public health crisis, an epidemic of severe anemia caused by hookworm infections that is devastating the local population.
speaker_5HOST
By all historical accounts, his interactions with the local population and his Puerto Rican colleagues were incredibly fraught.
Micah DankGUEST
It's the sacral fractal patterns.
Micah DankGUEST
Now, you guys know that the Rockefeller Institute brought us out of 432 hertz for music and put us in 440, right?
Aaron KuhnHOST
Yeah.
Aaron KuhnHOST
Oh, yeah.
Melinda HemmelgarnHOST
She also has the second most popular TED-Ed health talk, How Sugar Affects Your Brain, with over 19 million views and counting.
Melinda HemmelgarnHOST
Dr. Avina graduated from Princeton with a PhD in psychology and neuroscience and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology at the Rockefeller University in New York City.
Melinda HemmelgarnHOST
Welcome, Nicole.
Nicole AvenaGUEST
Thank you so much.
Rick RubinHOST
Like
Jack KruseGUEST
the reason why I remember leptin was discovered at Rockefeller University in 94.
Jack KruseGUEST
That's after I finished medical school.
Jack KruseGUEST
So I never learned about this hormone at all.
Claudia HammondHOST
But new research examining the medical records and scans of more than 100,000 patients has found that if you have more brown fat, it could reduce your likelihood of having various health conditions, including mental illnesses.
Claudia HammondHOST
Cardiologist Dr Paul Cohen from Rockefeller University in the US led the study, and I asked him more about what they found.
Paul CohenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When we compared people with or without brown fat on these baseline scans, we saw that people with brown fat were much less likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
Paul CohenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We then went a step further and developed a computer program to quantify how much brown fat a person has.
Karen Sussman HorganGUEST
And about 15 years ago, I started Vell Health with my co-founders, Dr. Kevin Volpp and Dr. David Asch.
Karen Sussman HorganGUEST
who by day are at the University of Pennsylvania, and they receive funding from the NIH and the Rockefeller Institute and others to study human irrationality in healthcare.
Karen Sussman HorganGUEST
And we were founded to take their academic thought leadership, and now we bring it into the real world.
Karen Sussman HorganGUEST
And over the years, we've worked, we'll get into this in more detail, but with digital health companies, payers, providers, pharma, all on nudging platforms.
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