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Diane Martinez received a dean’s prize for outstanding thesis from Dean Paul Cleary.
Graduate Daina Barauskas with faculty member Annette Molinaro.
In the show’s finale Terri Huynh, Laura Tom and Hiromi Yoshida performed, “Accredit Us,” to the tune of “Aquarius.”
Sonja Rakowski, as Peggy Bia, threatens to strangle Auguste Fortin, played by Tyler Dodd, unless he agrees to murder an inspector from the LCME. Katherine Rose, playing Nancy Angoff, looked on.
Katherine Rose portrayed Nancy Angoff, the associate dean of student affairs.
Samuel D. Kuchlan, M.D. '35, HS '37
For his long-standing service to the university and the School of Medicine, Nicholas Spinelli received the Yale Medal from the Association of Yale Alumni. At the ceremony in November Spinelli signed the President’s Book.
Gerald Shulman has mapped out the metabolic disruptions at the root of type 2 diabetes. Until recently, this disease was mostly diagnosed in those over 40, but there has been a sharp increase in type 2 diabetes in younger adults and in children. The illness is also on the rise in China and India, and it is estimated that it will affect more than a third of a billion individuals in the world by the year 2020.
December 7 Officials from PepsiCo marked the opening of a new PepsiCo Research Laboratory at Yale with a visit to New Haven. Research at the new lab, at 25 Science Park, adjacent to the Yale campus, will focus on the development of healthier food and beverage products. PepsiCo will also fund a graduate fellowship to support research related to nutritional science as part of the School of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), known informally on campus as the M.D./Ph.D. Program. The new lab is PepsiCo’s ninth global regional research center. (Front, from left) Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Genetics, deputy dean for academic and scientific affairs, and professor of cellular and molecular physiology; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; Mehmood Khan, M.D., chief scientific officer, PepsiCo; Mark Pirner, M.D., Ph.D., director, clinical and scientific development strategy, PepsiCo. (Back, from left) Mary Resseguie, Ph.D., senior scientist, PepsiCo; Derek Yach, M.B.Ch.B., M.P.H., senior vice president, global health policy, PepsiCo; George A. Mensah, M.D., director, heart health and global health policy, PepsiCo; Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine; Kevan Herold, M.D., professor of immunobiology and medicine; Gregory Yep, Ph.D., global vice president, long-term research, PepsiCo; Patricia E. Pedersen, Ph.D., associate vice president for development and university director of corporate and foundation relations at Yale; James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cell biology and director of the MSTP; Kenneth R. Williams, Ph.D., adjunct professor of research in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and director of the School of Medicine’s W.M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, the Yale/NHLBI Proteomics Center, and the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center; Amy S. Rich, M.P.H., senior associate director of corporate and foundation relations in Yale’s Office of Development; Heidi Kleinbach-Sauter, Ph.D., senior vice president, research and development, global foods, PepsiCo.
October 16: An INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM AT THE RAYMOND AND BEVERLY SACKLER INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES was held at Yale’s West Campus. The day-long event, which featured talks by internationally renowned scientists from diverse fields, celebrated both the gift by the Sacklers that helped establish the institute and the arrival of the first class of graduate students in the Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology. (From left) Martin Chalfie, Ph.D., chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein; Peter Salovey, Ph.D., Yale University provost, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, and professor of epidemiology and public health; Beverly Sackler; Raymond R. Sackler, M.D.; and Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of chemistry, and director of the new Sackler Institute, which is dedicated to promoting research that bridges the gaps between traditional scientific fields.
Frequent voyages on Long Island Sound and beyond on his beloved Cape Dory sailboat CYLAN II provide a frequent respite for James Jamieson, who has overseen the medical school’s M.D./Ph.D. program for nearly thirty years. A recent donation from Jamieson will provide the program with a much-needed fund to provide scholarships to Yale’s future physician–scientists.
June 23, 24: The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity (YCDC) held its FIRST ANNUAL EDUCATORS’ SYMPOSIUM.
(From left) YCDC Co-Director Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D., the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development; visionary educator Audrey G. Ratner; YCDC Co-director Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development.
June 23, 24: The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity (YCDC) held its FIRST ANNUAL EDUCATORS’ SYMPOSIUM.
Conference participant Jennifer Sheridan of the Yale Divinity School’s Class of 2009, visits an exhibit of assistive technology.
June 23, 24: The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity (YCDC) held its FIRST ANNUAL EDUCATORS’ SYMPOSIUM.
Linda Koch Lorimer, J.D., vice president and secretary of Yale University, presented the conference’s closing keynote address.
(Above, from left) Denise Webb, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Tanika Simpson make home visits in the Minding the Baby program, an innovative partnership between faculty at the Yale School of Nursing and Child Study Center and the Fair Haven Community Health Clinic. The program, co-directed by (below) Arietta Slade, Linda Mayes, and Lois Sadler provides young mothers with home visitation from both nurse practitioners and social workers.
Jorge Galán
January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.
Keynote speaker Gerald Friedland, M.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology and director of the AIDS program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, described his two decades of experience treating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in New York, New Haven, and South Africa.
January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.
Valerie A. Ceva, M.B.A., of consulting firm The Strategic Choice, with Paul R. Pescatello, J.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE).
January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel, Eugene O’Neill Professor and chair of the Yale School of Drama’s department of playwrighting, is greeted by Gordon Edelstein, Long Wharf’s artistic director and director of “Coming Home.”
January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.
Professor of Medicine Asghar Rastegar, M.D., and Adeoye Y. Olukotun, M.D., M.P.H., of CardioVax, Inc.
January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.
William H. Prusoff, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology and co-discoverer of the anti-HIV drug Zerit, with David I. Scheer, president of Scheer and Company, Long Wharf Theatre Trustee, and organizer of the event.
April 4: At the Department of Psychiatry’s 2009 neuroscience symposium, “Recovery Across the Lifecycle,” famed talk show host and New York Times blogger Dick Cavett (right) received the department’s annual MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH ADVOCACY AWARD. John H. Krystal, M.D. (left), the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research and deputy chair for research, presented the award to Cavett, a member of the Yale College Class of 1958, for his openness about his lifelong battle with clinical depression in his writings, interviews, and speeches, and for informing the public of the many treatment options available to patients who suffer from depression.
Stephen Strittmatter (left) and Haakon Nygaard were involved in a study showing that proteins known as prions play a crucial role in triggering the accumulation of amyloid-beta into the toxic plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Louis Chênevert, president and CEO of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), and his wife, Debbie, made a personal donation of $540,000 to complement UTC’s $1 million gift to the new Smilow Cancer Hospital. Hartford, Conn.-based UTC is one of the world’s largest companies serving the aerospace and building industries.
Richard Flavell says that he and colleagues who founded Yale’s Department of Immunobiology in 1988 set two criteria for recruiting faculty: “We decided we would hire people who were outstanding and who were easy to get along with—no prima donnas.” Twenty years later, the department is at the top of its field.
Robert Udelsman (left) consults with a patient. Having lab equipment and a technician in the operating room has allowed Udelsman’s team to assess parathyroidectomy results in just 12 minutes.
Nurse Lesley Anderson gave vaccinations on Election Day in Milford, Conn.
Pediatric surgeon and scientist Christopher Breuer (left) is “a very easy person to talk to,” says Daniel “Pete” Duncan (right), a student spending an additional year of medical school doing research in Breuer’s lab. Breuer and colleague Toshiharu Shinoka are pioneers in the use of tissue engineering techniques to build new blood vessels for children with heart disease.
Michael O’Brien (left), one of a new team of four advisors to medical students, works with Jorge Ramallo (right) of the Class of 2013.
Julie Button and Jason Wallace, doctoral candidates in the Combined Program for Biological and Biomedical Sciences, have been named the inaugural Annie Le Fellows for 2010–2011.
Along with Maria Diuk-Wasser (right), assistant professor of epidemiology, and Francesica Tizard (left), senior administrative assistant at the Yale School of Public Health, Durland Fish (seated) has crafted a new Lyme disease application for the Apple iPhone. The software uses location-based services to inform users of the presence of deer tick populations, and also includes clear depictions of ticks at various life stages (below), which can help determine whether tick bites require quick medical attention.
Brian Smith, who leads the medical school’s Department of Laboratory Medicine, says that the technologies that are making personalized medicine a reality pose daunting challenges to his field. The sheer quantity of patient information that can now be obtained from genomic analysis and other techniques raises a multitude of practical and ethical questions, and will require informatics experts to devise innovative ways to manage and interpret highly complex data.
Jonathan Puchalski performs bronchial thermoplasty (BT) at the Yale Center for Asthma and Airway Disease, one of the few sites in the Northeast equipped for this recently approved, minimally invasive procedure. BT targets the muscle tissue that causes airway constriction, offering a new medical option for asthma patients whose symptoms cannot be successfully controlled with medications.
Every seat at Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, and in a nearby auditorium featuring a live video broadcast, was filled on the symposium’s opening day.
Robert Califf, director of the Duke Translational Medical Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine, delivered the final address, “Translational Medicine: Moving from Better Ideas to Better Health.”
Edward Cantor of the Yale College Class of 1961 (left) is one of the leaders of an effort to raise money for cancer research at Yale to mark the class’s 50th reunion. Two new endowments, funded with more than $1 million in contributions from the class, will fund research at Yale Cancer Center (YCC) under the leadership of YCC Director Thomas Lynch (right).
(From left) Murat Günel, Mark Gerstein, Richard Lifton, Shrikant Mane, and colleagues at the Center for Mendelian Genomics at Yale will use next-generation sequencing tools to study the genetic causes of inherited diseases.
(From left) Murat Günel, Mark Gerstein, Richard Lifton, Shrikant Mane, and colleagues at the Center for Mendelian Genomics at Yale will use next-generation sequencing tools to study the genetic causes of inherited diseases.
(From left) Joan Steitz has been honored by a new Yale Scholar fund endowed by Donald McCluskey, the eighth such fund in the initiative launched by Dean Robert Alpern in 2005.
Jorge Galán (left), who has studied the molecular basis of infection by Salmonella and other foodborne pathogens, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Arthur Horwich shares the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for his contributions to understanding protein folding.
In studying the cellular dehydration that occurs in xerocytosis, Jesse Rinehart (left) and Patrick Gallagher identified mutations in the gene for the protein PIEZO1, which may also cause dehydration in sickle cell anemia.
In studying the cellular dehydration that occurs in xerocytosis, Jesse Rinehart (left) and Patrick Gallagher identified mutations in the gene for the protein PIEZO1, which may also cause dehydration in sickle cell anemia.
A new electronic medical record will replace paper files that now hold patients’ medical histories. Trevor Lewis, a senior administrative assistant in orthopaedics, looked over patient records.
Ruslan Medzhitov (left) and Richard Flavell are winners of a prize that honors significant contributions of foreign-born scientists and artists to American life.
Michael Simons, a leading researcher on the role of arteriogenesis in cardiovascular diseases, directs the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC). The YCVRC’s collaborative spirit and unique scientific climate has attracted top cardiovascular scientists to the School of Medicine and has opened up new research directions and avenues of funding.
The theory advanced by Richard Flavell (left) and Ruslan Medzhitov is a potential “paradigm shift in the science of chronic diseases,” says philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik.Showing - of photos.
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