July 11, 2005 — Researchers have pinpointed specific gene and protein over-production in metastatic melanoma, pointing the way to a possible new drug target, according to a study published in Nature July 7. Gene amplification is a process that often...
July 8, 2005 — Yale School of Nursing (YSN) has moved from 48th to sixth among nursing schools nationwide in support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research, training and fellowship activities, according to rankings released recently by...
July 8, 2005 — Yale School of Medicine is recruiting patients with Alzheimer’s disease to test a vaccine that appears to slow the accumulation of beta amyloid plaque in the brain. Alzheimer’s, which is marked by a progressive loss of mental ability and...
July 7, 2005 — The Gerber Foundation has awarded Yale School of Medicine researcher Thomas Carpenter, M.D., $844,000 over three years to study biomarkers of dietary calcium insufficiency in inner city infants. Carpenter, professor of endocrinology and...
July 1, 2005 — A five–year, $8.5–million dollar research project, designed to substantially reduce the spread of malaria by redirecting mosquitoes with odor cues, is being undertaken by an international team of scientists including John Carlson, the...
July 1, 2005 — Yale has been offered $17 million from the Grand Challenges in Global health initiative to genetically engineer mice with immune systems similar enough to humans to aid in testing the safety and effectiveness of potential vaccines. Funded...
The grant–making arm within Women’s Health Research at Yale is funding new research studies for 2005 to reduce domestic violence, examine the link between estrogen and lung cancer, and investigate estrogen’s effects on memory. This granting structure,...
Shifting their hiring criteria after learning the gender of job applicants is one way that employers engage in sex discrimination despite laws and policies banning it, according to a study by Yale researchers published this month. “The question we wanted...
A Yale School of Medicine surgeon, Edward Uchio, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, section of urology, is a recipient of the 2005 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award. Only 10 Jahnigen scholars’ awards were presented to geriatrics...
Theodore Holford, The Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Head of the Division of Biostatistics, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). The ASA is a scientific and educational society...