Media Advisory: Press Conference on October 2 with Michael Young of The Rockefeller University, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller University is holding a press conference with Michael Young, a recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

WHO: Michael Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at The Rockefeller University.

WHAT: Press conference with 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient, Michael Young.

WHEN: October 2, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: The Rockefeller University
Caspary Auditorium
1230 York Avenue, at 66(th) Street
New York, NY 10065

The press conference will also be livestreamed at: http://stream.rockefeller.edu/nobel

WHY: Rockefeller's Michael Young, along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbach, was announced today as a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

Contact:
Katherine Fenz
kfenz@rockefeller.edu
212-327-7900
www.rockefeller.edu

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SOURCE The Rockefeller University