Many countries around the world are experiencing shortages of tocilizumab, an immunosuppressive drug that has become the standard of care for treating severe cases of COVID-19. A new study co-led by researchers at Yale and the University of British...
Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute (WTI) will welcome this spring its first cohort of postdoctoral fellows, six scholars chosen carefully for their interest in interdisciplinary research into the mind and brain and their commitment to inclusive research...
Yale scientists have discovered that a protein known as augmentor-alpha regulates body weight in mice, an insight that could lead to new treatments for metabolic disorders.
The findings were published April 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
In February, Josh Geballe ’97, ’02 M.B.A., a technology professional who had been serving on Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s leadership team, returned to Yale as the university’s first senior associate provost for entrepreneurship and innovation.
In the...
After graduating from Yale School of Management in 1993, Brian Roach spent 18 years in the banking industry. His career included stops in New York City, San Diego, and San Francisco. He worked for several companies — including one that he co-founded and a...
Christine Rodriguez is dedicated to health care. She teaches clinical skills at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and provides transgender care to patients. An accomplished rapper, she even turned down a career in music to pursue one in nursing. She loves...
In the United States, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic populations, with those groups experiencing higher COVID-19-related death rates than non-Hispanic white Americans. But a new Yale-led analysis of these disparities in...
Students in the School of Public Health’s (YSPH) “Soda Politics” course are watching an advertisement. In the ad, celebrity Kendall Jenner poses at a photo shoot as a group of protesters walks down the street. At first hesitant, Jenner is eventually drawn...
As a medical resident, Vikas Gupta came across many patients with what are known as fibrosing diseases, ailments in which tissues become scarred, causing other complications, and for which there are limited treatment options. He eventually decided to...
Yale was not on Jaelen King’s radar as a high school student. He only considered applying after earning an excellent score on the SAT exams — and some firm nudging from his mom.
And his first few months on campus, he admits, were a challenge. But he...