The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, in partnership with the Fair Haven Community Health Center, has received the first Donaghue Program for Research Leadership grant from The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Foundation. The grant of...
In an address to the Italian Parliament in Rome on Jan. 12, Yale Fertility Center Director Dr. Pasquale Patrizio provided statistics showing that a 2004 Italian law that restricts in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices is resulting in fewer pregnancies...
Peter Cresswell, the newly designated Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology, has spent most of his career unraveling some of the mysteries of the human immune system.Creswell’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, in...
Dr. Gerald I. Shulman, who has been named the inaugural George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, is an internationally known diabetes researcher.He focuses his studies on understanding the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance, the role...
Racism in the healthcare system is the subject of a documentary film and workshop being presented on Thursday, Jan. 22, by the School of Medicine and URU, The Right To Be Inc.The 55-minute film, titled “The Deadliest Disease in America,” will be screened...
Dr. Samuel Ritvo, a leader in psychoanalysis and child psychiatry who was a faculty member for nearly six decades at the Yale Child Study Center, died on Dec. 3 at age 91.Ritvo’s research interests included longitudinal studies of child development,...
Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, an internationally recognized pioneer in reproductive biology who began some of his groundbreaking research while at Yale, died on Nov. 25 at the age of 83.Mastroianni was the William Goodell Emeritus Professor and chair of the...
The University will use a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale.The five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will help fund three...
Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and founder of hospice in the United States, died on Nov. 8 at her home in Branford. She was 91 years old.Wald, a member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and an American Academy of...
Dr. Franklin H. Epstein, a former Yale professor known worldwide for his accomplishments in nephrology, died on Nov. 5. He was 84 years old.A 1947 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Epstein completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where...