Yale University researchers received almost $4 million from the state of Connecticut to study ways human embryonic stem cells can be used to treat ailments as diverse as spinal cord injuries, cancer and mental retardation. Five researchers received grants...
Dr. Thomas M. Gill, newly named as the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine, is a leading authority on the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older persons.The co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and of the Claude D. Pepper...
Holly Powell Kennedy, the inaugural Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), is helping to further understanding of midwifery practice today.Kennedy, who will join the YSN faculty on July 1, is currently an associate...
Michael C. Crair, the inaugural William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Vision Research, studies the development, structure and function of the visual system.He is exploring how genes and the environment interact to guide the development of neuronal...
Yale faculty member Susan Kaech is one of 50 researchers nationwide named as Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).This award was created by the HHMI to fuel the creative energy of young scientists, who are feeling the...
Citing research that shows drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is helping fuel the obesity epidemic, Yale University’s Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H, argue for taxing sugared beverages in the April...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
Building on the success of last year’s program with the China State Food and Drug Administration (sFDA), a second sFDA delegation visited the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) April 2-6 for training in the regulation of medical devices. Robert Makuch,...
Dr. Pietro De Camilli of the Yale School of Medicine has received a $100,000 Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD, the leading charity advancing treatment for mental health disorders.The one-year grant to De Camilli, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
Routine screening for coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes patients with no symptoms of angina or a history of coronary disease is unnecessary and may lead initially to more invasive and costly heart procedures, according to researchers at Yale...