Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker, 1909-1992

The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) is one of the world’s premier research institutes in the areas of human memory and diseases and disorders that impact human memory. Founded in 1999, it was named for U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller’s mother, who died from complications of Alzheimer’s. In 2016, West Virginia University acquired the Institute and agreed to consolidate all of its neurosciences research under a new WVU Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.