The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale presented new aging-related research awards to six Yale investigators.Joanne M. Foody, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) has been awarded $96,892 in career development...
David A. Fiellin, M.D. Yale School of Medicine researcher David A. Fiellin, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received over $3 million in grants from The National Institutes of Health and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance...
Jennifer Prah Ruger Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor in the Global Health Division in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2005 Annual Labelle Lectureship in Health Services...
An advanced study launched at Yale School of Medicine is evaluating the role of statin therapy in patients with heart failure, one of the leading causes of hospitalization in people over age 65.While statins—drugs that inhibit cholesterol production in...
Joshua Copel, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine expert in first trimester risk assessment for Down syndrome is available to comment on the First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk (FASTER) trial, published November 10 in the New England Journal of...
Yale Cancer Center has been selected by “Coast to Coast: A Run for Survivorship” as the primary beneficiary for its cross country run in 2006.“We are honored that ‘Coast to Coast’ has partnered with Yale Cancer Center to increase awareness and funding for...
In recognition of National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a team of physicians from the Yale-New Haven Thoracic Oncology Program of Yale Cancer Center is available for interviews on the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options available for...
Agnès Vignery, associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, and cell biology has been named Yale-Pfizer Global Discovery Visiting Professor for 2005.At Pfizer’s Groton Laboratories, Vignery, whose research focuses on the developmental and...
Ira Mellman Ira Mellman, Chair and Sterling Professor of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine, is one of the three Americans elected an Associate Member as the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)...
Pediatric researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a gene on human chromosome 6 called DCDC2, which is linked to dyslexia, a reading disability affecting millions of children and adults.
The researchers also found that a genetic alteration...
