The Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) has announced an Idea Development Award to Dr. Hui Zhang, associate professor of genetics at Yale University School of Medicine, for study of a mouse model of prostate cancer progression....
Sara Rockwell, professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pharmacology, and director of the Office of Scientific Affairs at Yale University School of Medicine, was honored by the Department of Radiation Oncology and Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Medical...
Pediatric metabolic syndrome, which is a group of risk factors in one person including obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension and other metabolic abnormalities, is present in nearly half of all severely obese children and adolescents and increases...
Nita Maihle, professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, has been elected chairperson of Women in Cancer Research Council of the American Association for Cancer Research. As chairperson, Maihle will lead the...
Terri R. Fried, M.D., associate professor of medicine/geriatrics will be honored with the “Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award” at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) May 17-21, 2004. The award is...
Eight members of the Yale University faculty have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the oldest and most illustrious learned society in the United States. The newly elected Fellows are Richard H. Brodhead, Donald Max...
A clinical study comparing three treatments of type 2 diabetes in children and teens has begun at Yale and 11 other medical centers and their affiliated sites around the country. The TODAY (Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and...
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., director of the Yale K12 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Award Program, has announced four award recipients for 2004 and 2005. Recipients include Karen Dorsey, M.D., postdoctoral fellow, pediatrics (hematology-oncology), Nina...
President Richard C. Levin announced today the appointment of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dean Robert Alpern as dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Alpern, who will assume the deanship at Yale June 1, is the Ruth W. and Milton P....
In this issue of Science, researchers at Yale University and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto report that curcumin, a compound in the spice turmeric, corrects the defect of cystic fibrosis in mice. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating and...