Angus C. Nairn, recently named the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, is noted for his research on the molecular actions of dopamine in the basal ganglia.Nairn has extensive experience in the study of enzymology, protein chemistry and the...
Erik M. Shapiro, assistant professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering at the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.5 million New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Shapiro is working on developing new...
Healthcare is something that everyone around the world needs, but in some parts of the globe, there are few or no resources available to deliver that necessary care. Finding ways to reduce those disparities in healthcare — particularly among women,...
The Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series opens its fall schedule with a program on Humacyte, Inc. on Thursday, October 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar Street. The series is organized by the Yale Office of Cooperative...
The Yale School of Public Health has received a $10.7 million grant to expand its participation in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that contribute to their health and development. Last...
The Connecticut State Department of Education recently released school wellness policy reports for all Connecticut school districts participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) child nutrition programs. The report cards provide an overall...
The second in a two-part series of Dean’s Workshops focused on the School of Medicine’s Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory will take place on Friday, Oct. 17, at 1:30 p.m. in The Anlyan Center auditorium, 300 Cedar St. The workshop, titled “Proteomics...
Yale University researchers have described a molecular traffic signal in the middle of a busy biological highway that influences such diverse processes as the production of insulin, activation of the immune system, creation of new brain cells and...
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters. The sensors use...
Yale University’s Arthur Horwich, M.D., has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences announced.Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical...