洛克菲勒大学

学院简介

洛克菲勒大学是一所世界著名的生物医学教育研究中心，是由美国石油大王洛克菲勒建立的。成立于1901年的洛克菲勒医学研究所，在其75个独立的实验室中，大学为科学家们提供一个独特的协作环境。洛克菲勒医学院引导患者导向学习，是美国唯一的完全用于临床研究的私人医疗设施机构。

洛克菲勒大学的研究项目为美国最优秀研究生提供创新的教育体验，这些优秀的研究生来自分子和细胞生物学、遗传学、免疫学、神经系统科学、结构生物学、生物物理学和生物化学。洛克菲勒大学也是开展诸如计算生物学和基因组学科培训项目的领头人。

早期，洛克菲勒大学因其科学成就而被人们所知。20世纪许多重要的科学突破诞生于它的实验室，截至2011年10月4日，洛克菲勒大学的实验室中有24位科学家获得诺贝尔奖。当前，洛克菲勒大学及其研究人员致力于研究困扰社会的所有主要疾病与健康问题。

知名校友有：

布洛贝尔

1999年获诺贝尔生物医学奖

罗得里克·麦金农

2003年获诺贝尔化学奖

拉尔夫·斯坦曼

2011年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖

亚历克西·卡雷尔

1912年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖

教研情况

洛克菲勒大学是一所极具竞争力的研究院校。与生物学有关的研究方向有免疫学、病毒学和微生物学，医学人类遗传学，分子、细胞和发展生物学.神经系统科学，物理和数学生物学.生物化学和结构生物学。申请者需在生物学专业领域具有突出表现，强烈建议递交GRE单项成绩。

研究方向主要有：生物化学、生物物理学、细胞生物学、微生物学和病毒学及结构生物学。该校对申请者并没有相对严格的入学要求.只需通过校方考查，各项成绩合格即可。网址：耶鲁大学的分子、细胞和发展生物学系的研究重点有：细胞神经生物学、细胞骨架和细胞形态发生、发展细胞学、遗传学、膜蛋白质、分子和化学生物学、核酸和植物生物学等。留学驿站申请者应具有深厚的基础科学(如生物学、化学和数学)基础。

斯克里普斯研究院设有生物化学、细胞生物学、免疫学、分子生物学和神经生物学等系，并建有分子生物科学中心和Skaggs化学生物学学院。申请者必须至少具有学士学位.并具有较强的生物学和生物物理学等专业背景，必须至少学过1年以下4门基础课程中的2门：生物学/物理学/化学/数学(微积分和微分方程)：必须至少学过4学期以下高级课程：细胞生物学。发展生物学、分子遗传学、有机化学、生物物理学、微分子结构、物理化学和生物化学.应学过以下科目中至少3门的实验课程.生物学、生物化学、化学和物理；应具有1～2年研究实验经验

关于洛克菲勒

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.

Rockefeller was born into a large family in upstate New York and was shaped by his con man father and religious mother. His family moved several times before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Rockefeller became an assistant bookkeeper at age 16 and went into several business partnerships beginning at age 20, concentrating his business on oil refining. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897, and remained its largest shareholder.

Rockefeller's wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, and he became the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak. Oil was used throughout the country as a light source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel after the invention of the automobile. Furthermore, Rockefeller gained enormous influence over the railroad industry which transported his oil around the country. Standard Oil was the first great business trust in the United States. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry. His company and business practices came under criticism, particularly in the writings of author Ida Tarbell.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that Standard Oil must be dismantled for violation of federal antitrust laws. It was broken up into 34 separate entities, which included companies that became ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, and others—some of which still have the highest level of revenue in the world. Individual pieces of the company were worth more than the whole, as shares of these doubled and tripled in value in their early years; consequently, Rockefeller became the country's first billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of the national economy. His peak net worth was estimated at US$409 billion (in 2018 dollars; inflation-adjusted) in 1913. The 409 billion figure assumes a 2% share of US GDP in 2016. His personal wealth, 900 million in 1913, more than 2% of US GDP of 39.1 billion that year was worth 21 billion dollars in 2016 adjusted for inflation (by 1937 the Rockefeller fortune was 1.4 billion or 1.5% of GDP of 92 billion).

Rockefeller spent much of the last 40 years of his life in retirement at his estate in Westchester County, New York, defining the structure of modern philanthropy, along with other key industrialists such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research. His foundations pioneered the development of medical research and were instrumental in the near-eradication of hookworm and yellow fever in the United States.

Rockefeller was also the founder of the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funded the establishment of Central Philippine University in the Philippines. He was a devout Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions. He adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life. For advice, he relied closely on his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller with whom he had five children. He was a faithful congregant of the Erie Street Baptist Mission Church, taught Sunday school, and served as a trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor. Religion was a guiding force throughout his life and he believed it to be the source of his success. Rockefeller was also considered a supporter of capitalism based on a perspective of social Darwinism, and he was quoted often as saying, "The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest".

洛克菲勒大学官网

https://www.rockefeller.edu/

学校地址

1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065