Claim: Rockefeller University is in a state.

The Rockefeller University is a center for scientific research , primarily in the biological and medical sciences , providing doctoral and postdoctoral education . Rockefeller is one of the most prestigious institutes for biomedical research in the world , and it is the oldest such institute in the United States . Of a 78 person faculty -LRB- tenured and tenure-track , as of 2016 -RRB- , 38 are members of the National Academy of Sciences , 18 are members of the National Academy of Medicine , 8 are Lasker Award recipients , and 5 are Nobel laureates .   Rockefeller is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan , between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue .   Richard P. Lifton -- previously the executive director of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics at Yale University -- became the university 's eleventh president on September 1 , 2016 .   The Rockefeller University Press publishes the Journal of Experimental Medicine , the Journal of Cell Biology , and The Journal of General Physiology .