To help combat the rising melanoma rates in younger women, a volunteer team of Yale School of Medicine dermatologists representing the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) will provide free skin cancer screenings for spectators at the Pilot Pen Tennis...
President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
The cutting-edge genomic and proteomic technologies available through the Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory and their positive impact on research at Yale University will be the focus of the next two Dean’s Workshops at the School of Medicine. The...
Dr. Daniel Rowe, a founder of the Yale Health Plan — the first pre-paid university health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States — and its director for two decades, died on July 8. He was 83 years old.Rowe was professor emeritus of pediatrics...
J. Murdoch Ritchie, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, died on July 10 after a long illness.Ritchie, who formerly served as chair of the Department of Pharmacology, made major contributions toward an understanding of the conduction...
Every year, more than 6,000 people die while waiting for organ transplants, notes Dr. Sukru Emre, section chief of transplant surgery and immunology in the Department of Surgery.“With nearly 100,000 Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants, the...