Dr. Thomas M. Gill, newly named as the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine, is a leading authority on the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older persons.The co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and of the Claude D. Pepper...
Holly Powell Kennedy, the inaugural Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), is helping to further understanding of midwifery practice today.Kennedy, who will join the YSN faculty on July 1, is currently an associate...
Michael C. Crair, the inaugural William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Vision Research, studies the development, structure and function of the visual system.He is exploring how genes and the environment interact to guide the development of neuronal...
Yale faculty member Susan Kaech is one of 50 researchers nationwide named as Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).This award was created by the HHMI to fuel the creative energy of young scientists, who are feeling the...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
Yale’s collaboration with other research centers will help determine the best way to treat diabetes in childrenThe University has been named co-chair of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (PDC), comprised of six leading clinical facilities. The PDC will be...
As anyone who has broken a bone knows, removing the cast can be one of the most stressful parts of the ordeal - especially for a child.Traditional oscillating saws are noisy, seem to take forever, and can get hot enough to potentially cause third-degree...
Two Yale postdoctoral scientists, Oscar R. Colegio and Kristina M. Herbert, were among 13 designated as Dam Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellows.The foundation provides funds to the nation’s most promising young cancer researchers so they can pursue...
Dr. Robert J. Alpern has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine, effective July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.Alpern, who came to Yale in 2004, has helped lead the medical school through a period...
Robert Heimer, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health, will work and lecture in Russia with support from a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship.Designed to promote “mutual understanding between the...