Ami Klin The Yale Child Study Center has been awarded the Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) status by the National Institutes of Health. This highly competitive and prestigious award comes with $7.5 million...
Pietro DeCamilli New Haven, Conn. — A gene found exclusively and at high levels in the brain appears to be a key player in enabling more sophisticated brain function, Yale School of Medicine researchers...
Thomas A. Steitz led research on ribosome structure and function. Yale biophysicist Thomas A. Steitz has received one of the four 2007 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious awards in...
Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.This discovery may help the...
New Haven, Conn.—Where there is cigarette smoking there is probably misuse of alcohol too, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine. “This means cigarette smoking status can be used as a clinical...
New Haven, Conn.—Cleve Killingsworth, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and an advocate of health insurance reform, will receive the John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2007 award from Yale School of Medicine’s...
Fred Volkmar, M.D. Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., director of the Yale Child Study Center and a renowned expert in autism and related disorders, will discuss the expansion of the Center’s specialty clinical...
Paul Cleary, dean of Public Health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering. Paul Cleary...
New Haven, Conn. — A new analysis of both estrogen and estrogen plus progestin data from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone trials in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a 24 percent reduction in risk for coronary heart disease...