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The medical school’s ‘hidden treasure’
General Internal Medicine at Yale is a flourishing research powerhouse with a diverse portfolio of projects
As is the case at most medical schools, Yale’s Department of Internal Medicine is by far its largest, with over 300 faculty members. These faculty are organized into sections, most of which carry names easily mapped onto familiar medical specialties: Nephrology,...
Turning on immunity to shut off cancer
When Lieping Chen, M.D., Ph.D., was training to be an oncologist in the 1980s, the lack of effective cancer treatments made it a depressing job. “That’s why I quit clinical practice,” he says. But Chen soon shifted to...
Philanthropy fuels research
The research advances emanating from Yale’s Section of General Internal Medicine (GIM) require constant and consistent funding. Private philanthropy often provides critical early support to researchers who wish to...
Advances
Doctors and patients who are impatient for new drugs to hit the market often get the sense that the...
Read more...Tight rein on glucose no boon in diabetes
Some researchers believe that aggressively controlling glucose levels in type 2 diabetes reduces...
Read more...Tiny genomic change makes big difference
A hallmark of mammalian brains is the corticospinal system (CS), which, in humans, connects the...
Read more...Probing the cause of diabetes-related pain
Uncontrollable sensations (e.g., pain and tingling) are all-too-familiar sensations for most...
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