Disaster planning and response, including preparations for special populations, will be the topic of a conference April 17-18 sponsored by the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Yale School of Public Health. “Community Preparedness:...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has created a $2 million endowment to help advance cutting-edge medical research at Yale School of Medicine. Through this new program, called the Bayer Endowment for Scholars in Medicine and Management, a fellowship...
Yale University has announced an investment of over $200 million for the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, a new initiative in these rapidly developing areas of scientific research. The initiative represents part of Yale’s previously announced $1...
C. Norman Gillis, professor emeritus of anesthesiology and pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on August 16 at age 68 in Boston. Recognized nationally as a specialist in pulmonary vascular disease and pharmacology, Gillis published...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
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...
With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.The Yale portion of the study will be spearheaded by Dr. Linda Mayes,...