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A scientist soldiers on
Born on a battlefield, a fighter in real wars and the war against cancer
When Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D., was born in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1945, gunfire crackled and shells exploded outside. His parents were Jewish partisans fighting the German invaders and local fascists. Three years later, with nearly all their relatives shot by...
Pediatric researcher is new ambassador for global health
Research!America, the nation’s largest nonprofit educational and advocacy alliance for health research, has named Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics, microbial pathogenesis and public health, an Ambassador...
Biologist cited for structural insights into action of antibiotics
In a ceremony and commemorative symposium held at Keio University in Tokyo in November, Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, was awarded the 11th Keio Medical...
Expert on blood pressure genes is honored
It has been a busy fall for Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In October, Lifton received the 2006 Robert Tigerstedt Award at the...
Education innovator wins award for work on transforming schools
School reform leader James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center (YCSC), has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. The award, which...
Awards & Honors
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology, has received the Mary S. Sigourney...
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David C. Cone, M.D., associate professor of surgery and epidemiology, is president-elect of the...
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Linda C. Degutis, Dr.Ph., M.S.N., associate professor of surgery and public health, is...
Read more...Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and professor of pediatrics, has been...
Read more...Annette M. Molinaro, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health, has been elected as a member of...
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Medicine@Yale, the bimonthly newsletter of Yale School of Medicine (YSM), chronicles achievements
of YSM in basic and clinical research, medical education, and health care. Read More...
