Fighting the fallout of childhood cancer
A personal encounter with a deadly cancer inspires a $3 million contribution to advance psychosocial care, research for child survivors
Riva Ariella Ritvo, Ph.D., has a favorite quote from Gandhi: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”For much of her life, Ritvo, known to friends as “Ari,” has aimed to follow that maxim, treating and studying children with autism spectrum disorders at the Los Angeles–area Ritvo Clinic and as a clinical instructor of long standing at the Yale Child Study Center (YCSC). Ritvo’s husband, Alan B. Slifka, M.B.A., a 1951 alumnus of Yale College and founder of...
As science moves faster, the world gets smaller
In a giant leap forward for personalized medicine—one of the most highly anticipated benefits of the Human Genome...
Medical school mounts mission of mercy for Haiti
On January 18, Martin Luther King Day, people around the world were still struggling to grasp the extent of the...
Autoimmunity: finding common ground
The shared biological mechanisms of diverse autoimmune disorders inspire a united research effort
A scientist’s lifelong quest to make a difference for the mentally ill
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