New line of attack on a dreaded disease
In honor of a friend fighting a brain tumor, Turkish financier’s multimillion-dollar gift funds genomic analysis of deadly glioblastomas
Few diseases are as feared, or as deadly, as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and most common form of brain cancer, which accounts for about 60 percent of all brain tumors diagnosed in the United States each year. Over the past five years, improvements in radiotherapy and surgical techniques, and the advent of drugs that block blood vessel formation in tumors have significantly increased survival time in patients with GBM. But despite these advances, on average these patients...
Kavli neuroscience institute to cast an even wider scientific net
Building upon a grant made in 2003 that established the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, The Kavli Foundation...
In life and work, alumnus touched countless hearts
There could be no greater gratification for a physician–scientist than seeing the fruits of his or her own research...
A big birthday for Child Study Center
A century of child development research and compassionate care for childhood disorders is marked by world-renowned Yale department
In 11 steps, chemists make a giant leap
In the latest chapter of a 15-year scientific story spanning the globe from the South Pacific to New Haven, a team of...
Surgeons-turned-detectives explore the dawn of chemotherapy
Thanks to the unearthing of long-lost medical records by two dogged surgeons, the full story of the first use of...
New grant from VA supports a fresh look at primary care training
The United States faces a severe shortage of physicians in the coming decades. As the health care needs of the aging...
Deputy dean is stalwart in a whirlwind of change in biomedical research
Advances
A cellular doorkeeper’s role in hypertension
From their perch atop the kidneys, the adrenal glands help to control blood pressure by secreting...
Read more...Uncovering genes that orient organs
Our bodies exhibit symmetry—two eyes, ears, arms, legs, and so on. But internal organs such as the...
Read more...Now? Later? Brain cells help us make the call
We all prefer receiving large rewards right away, but we typically must choose between small, quick...
Read more...Sorting out the steps in Salmonella infection
Salmonella bacteria invade the gut by piercing a needle-like structure through the intestinal...
Read more...Out & About
January 11 Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) kicked off its 100th year with a Centennial Series Symposium on infant mental health in honor of Arnold Gesell, M.D., the CSC’s founder (see related story). From left: Linda Mayes, M.D., Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry; Helen Egger, M.D., visiting assistant professor in the CSC; (back row) Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., director of the CSC and the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry; Katarzyna Chawarska, Ph.D., associate professor in the CSC; and Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D., associate professor in the CSC and director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. 
January 11 Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) kicked off its 100th year with aCentennial Series Symposium on infant mental health in honor of Arnold Gesell, M.D., the CSC’s founder (see related story). 
January 20 89 people from the medical campus were in attendance at a School of Medicine Night at Mory’s, held in the venerable York Street bar and eatery that reopened last November after a two-year hiatus.
From left: Ralph Brooks; Sheela Shenoi, M.D., instructor in internal medicine; and Auguste H. Fortin VI, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine.
January 20 89 people from the medical campus were in attendance at a School of Medicine Night at Mory’s, held in the venerable York Street bar and eatery that reopened last November after a two-year hiatus.
Karen Peart, J.D., associate director of media relations in Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications, and her son, Jordan.
January 20 89 people from the medical campus were in attendance at a School of Medicine Night at Mory’s, held in the venerable York Street bar and eatery that reopened last November after a two-year hiatus.
Mory’s general manager Robin Soltez (left) and hostess Jennifer Dunne.
January 20 89 people from the medical campus were in attendance at a School of Medicine Night at Mory’s, held in the venerable York Street bar and eatery that reopened last November after a two-year hiatus.
Yale College’s all-female a capella group Proof of the Pudding performed for the crowd.
January 20 89 people from the medical campus were in attendance at a School of Medicine Night at Mory’s, held in the venerable York Street bar and eatery that reopened last November after a two-year hiatus.
From left: Christopher G. Burd, Ph.D., associate professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and James E. Rothman, Ph.D., the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences and chair of the Department of Cell Biology.
February 18 The Class of 2013 carried on a 62-year tradition, poking fun at the medical school’s faculty and administration in “Staph Inception,” this year’s Second Year Show.
“Boy band” member Wayne Gui in one of the dance numbers.
February 18 The Class of 2013 carried on a 62-year tradition, poking fun at the medical school’s faculty and administration in “Staph Inception,” this year’s Second Year Show.
From left: Maria Koenigs, Kara Furman, Stephanie Meller,Irina Shklyar, and Meg Whicker as members of a glee club that faces off with the boy band.
February 18 The Class of 2013 carried on a 62-year tradition, poking fun at the medical school’s faculty and administration in “Staph Inception,” this year’s Second Year Show.
Amanda Hernandez plays the lead in “Fashion Design Girl.”
February 18 The Class of 2013 carried on a 62-year tradition, poking fun at the medical school’s faculty and administration in “Staph Inception,” this year’s Second Year Show.
Misia Yuhasz, the lead dancer in “Dean Belitsky.”
February 18 The Class of 2013 carried on a 62-year tradition, poking fun at the medical school’s faculty and administration in “Staph Inception,” this year’s Second Year Show.
From left: Matt Garner, Michael Alpert, Chris Sauer, Kyle Ragins, Ray Chen, and Dhruv Kullar in “Residency.”
February 18 A Reception Honoring Flora M. Vaccarino, M.D., who was named Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry in October, was held in the School of Medicine’s Beaumont Room. Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., associate dean for faculty affairs, professor of psychiatry and psychology, and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale (left), celebrates with the honoree, who recently founded the Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, an interdepartmental initiative that will use induced pluripotent stem cells as a research tool to understand neuronal development in individuals with specific neuropsychiatric disorders.
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