Overview

The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate university in New York City focused on understanding life and disease. Its laboratories investigate subjects ranging from genes and cells to the brain and human health, combining basic science with work that informs medicine. Graduate students train through laboratory research, while postdoctoral and clinical research programs support scientists at later stages of their careers. The university also runs a research hospital where laboratory studies connect with observations in people. Founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller Sr., the nonprofit institution developed from the nation's first biomedical research institute.