Yale’s James Rothman, fourth from right, and six other recipients of 2010 Kavli Prizes met President Barack Obama on June 6 in a White House ceremony to celebrate their achievements. Rothman, the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, was one...
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, is one of three scientists awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life...
New Pilot Project Program grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale will focus on two fundamental and important areas of women’s health: breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer mortality among women; and obesity, which in women leads to higher...
Forty-nine members of Yale Medical Group (YMG), the clinical practice of the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, are included in New York Magazine’s list of Best Doctors for 2011, far outnumbering any other practice or hospital in Connecticut. The list is...
Renowned glaucoma specialist M. Bruce Shields, M.D., the Marvin Sears Professor and Chair Emeritus of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale School of Medicine, will be honored June 17 with an international ophthalmology symposium as he retires after 15...
The Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF), a Hong Kong-based philanthropy devoted to advancing education and healthcare, has awarded $1.5 million to Yale University to expand two research core facilities, the human embryonic stem cell core and the genomics core,...
Today was the final day of the third annual Global Health Leadership Conference at Yale. President Richard C. Levin greeted the 25 international delegates during a luncheon where he presented Ghana’s Vice President John Dramani Mahama with a certificate...
A center to train the public health workforce in Connecticut and Rhode Island will be established at the Yale School of Public Health, thanks to a new $2.6 million federal grant. The center will focus on helping workers learn the best ways to address...
For more than five years, the HAVEN Free Clinic has been providing health care to members of the New Haven community. HAVEN, run by Yale students in the health professions, is an invaluable resource for the Fair Haven community, which has large numbers of...
When Nicole Gentili, a licensed clinical social worker, joined the Yale Child Study Center’s practice in Madison as director in July, she brought years of experience in individual, group and family therapy, psychosocial assessment and parenting support....