Dr. Robert J. Alpern has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine, effective July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.Alpern, who came to Yale in 2004, has helped lead the medical school through a period...
Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
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...
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...