Five of Yale’s top mental health scientists will discuss current research on a wide variety of topics — ranging from new treatments for bipolar disorder to the impact of exercise and medication on mood disorders and improving learning and memory skills —...
James E. Rothman, the newly designated Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, is an internationally renowned expert on membrane trafficking, the means by which proteins and other materials are transported within and between cells.Rothman, who...
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...
With the help of a 35-foot donated van, Dr. Fred Okuku is about to bring breast cancer screening home to Uganda.Okuku is a third-year resident in internal medicine at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. He visited Yale for six months this year because...
Yale’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn) recently sponsored two Yale medical students on a medical mission to Kenya, where they participated in the care of women with a condition known as vesicovaginal fistula,...