A firm foothold in the genetics of autism
New study applies advanced genomics in a carefully assembled population to yield some of the first solid data in autism genetics
Matthew W. State, M.D., Ph.D., had never seriously considered a career in genetic research until 1995, when he spent a few months in a child psychiatry ward during his residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. There he cared for a few children with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disorder caused when all or part of a seven-gene stretch of chromosome 15 is missing. Children with Prader-Willi tend to be intellectually delayed and prone to compulsive behaviors such as...
Honoring an RNA pioneer, backing science’s next generation
In 2007, Natalia B. Ivanova, Ph.D., arrived at the School of Medicine with ambitious plans. A rising star in stem cell...
Office supporting student research celebrates 25 years
Women who Google the phrase “increase chances of conceiving twins” are advised to try eating yams. Parents of children...
Cardiovascular science as social network
In bringing cardiovascular researchers together under one roof, Yale center gathers momentum and funding, stimulates scientific collaboration
Stopping malaria dead in its tracks
For parasites like those that cause malaria to thrive in the human body, they must produce proteins that drive their...
Cross-country walk seeks ‘altruistic’ organ donors
Donating part of his liver and a kidney to two different recipients he had never met was not enough for Harry Kiernan....
For two centuries, Yale School of Medicine has been a center of important advances in science and medicine. The...
Advances
Human stem cells play by own rules
Three genes in a constant interplay with one another determine the fate of embryonic stem cells...
Read more...No turning back the biological clock
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), such as in vitro fertilization, are so established that...
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If someone ends up in a hospital’s emergency department (ED) with signs of harmful drinking habits,...
Read more...Is cell phone use risky during pregnancy?
Chatting on a cell phone may become the next taboo for pregnant women. A recent study led by Hugh...
Read more...Out & About
January 27, 2012 A reception was held in the medical school’s Historical Library honoring the appointment of Steven M. Southwick, M.D., as the first Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Resilience (see related story). The professorship was created in 2010 with a gift from Glenn H. Greenberg, of the Yale College Class of 1968. (From left) Linda Vester Greenberg; Glenn Greenberg; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; and Southwick, also professor in the Child Study Center.
February 24, 2012 More than 70 second-year medical students participated in the production of this year’s Second-Year Show, titled “The iPocalypse.” Jessi Gold playing Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the medical school’s Clinical Skills Program.
Alex Kula sang and played the guitar in the show’s finale.
Kelsey Loeliger and the Class of 2014 sang and danced in the show’s final musical number.
Samantha Wang, one of the show’s directors, played an evil management consultant hired by Deputy Dean for Education Richard Belitsky, M.D., the Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education and associate professor of psychiatry, who devises a plan to eliminate the venerable Yale System of medical education.
Loeliger (left) and Juliet Fraser (right) in the musical number “Defying Belitsky.”
February 28, 2012 At a panel discussion called “Personalized Medicine: How Far Off?”, sponsored jointly by Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research and the New Haven-based bioscience advocacy group CURE (Connecticut United for Research Excellence), medical school faculty and biotech entrepreneurs discussed the status and trajectory of medicine in the post-genomic age. Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics and professor of medicine.
Paul R. Pescatello, J.D., Ph.D., CEO of CURE, moderated the discussion.
Thomas J. Lynch, M.D., Richard Sackler and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Medicine, director of Yale Cancer Center, and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven.
March 16, 2012 Each spring, fourth-year students at medical schools across the country eagerly anticipate Match Day, when students receive word of acceptance in residency training programs. At Yale, medical students gathered with friends, family, and faculty members in Harkness Ballroom to await the news. Alisse Hauspurg and a friend share a hug.
(From left) Alicia Little, Charisse Orme, and Katherine Uyhazi.
Julius Oatts (left) and Lilangi Ediriwickrema.
Whitney Sheen.
(From left) Adelina Hung, Fayola Edwards, and Odayme Quesada.
April 9, 2012 This year’s David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence was awarded to Ronald R. Salem, M.D., Lampman Professor of Surgery professor of diagnostic radiology, and chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology (see related story, page 2). Pictured here at a reception in the medical school’s Historical Library are (from left) Salem’s mother-in-law, Blanche Feldman; Salem; Salem’s wife, Sharon Salem; and son, Daniel Salem.
