Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

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Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
An International Award Recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Science

Award Presentation & Reception
Caspary Auditorium, The Rockefeller University
Tuesday March 25th, 2008
6:00PM Registration
6:30-7:30PM Award Presentation
7:30-8:00PM Reception

Please email martina@rockefeller.edu to RSVP or for further information.

Note: FACES (the Female Association for Clinicians, Educators, & Scientists) is sponsoring a discussion with the award winners about the challenges they faced as women in science. Please email kim2004@med.cornell.edu if you are interested in participating.

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Award recipients:
Dr. Gail Martin
Professor of Anatomy and Director, Department of Developmental Biology
University of California at San Francisco

Dr. Beatrice Mintz
Jack Schultz Endowed Chair and Senior Member
Institute for Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Dr. Elizabeth Robertson
Professor, Laboratory of Functional Analysis and Cell and Developmental Biology
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
University of Oxford

Independent discoveries by these three distinguished scientists contributed to the development of genetically tailored mice for biomedical research. Because of the remarkable similarities between mice and humans at the genetic level, studies of transgenic mice have revolutionized our understanding of human biology and disease. Their ground breaking achievements have also helped open the way for today's research on embryonic stem cells.

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky
Professor Emerita
Institute of Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University

The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by The Rockefeller University, was established by Dr. Paul Greengard, the University's Vincent Astor Professor, and his wife, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard. Dr. Greengard donated his entire monetary share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Rockefeller and, in partnership with generous supporters of the University, created this major international prize to be awarded annually by The Rockefeller University to outstanding women scientists. Named in memory of Dr. Greengard's mother, the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize provides recognition of the accomplishments of women in the sciences.