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Building replacements for arteries and lungs takes ingenuity—and patience
Having already earned a doctorate in biophysics at the University of Chicago, Laura E. Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., knew when she started medical school at the University of Michigan that research would be a major part of her career. At Michigan, she did work for a local...
School of Medicine welcomes the Class of 2016, a diverse group
A rabbi, a ballerina, and a Green Beret walk into Yale School of Medicine—all of them members of the Class of 2016. Chosen from 4,103 applicants, the 100 incoming students come from an amazing variety of backgrounds,...
RNA biologist is honored as scientist, advocate, mentor
The School of Medicine’s Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., has been awarded two major prizes that recognize outstanding achievements of women scientists.Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a...
Epidemiologist honored for work modeling outbreaks
Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D., has received the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. Galvani, associate professor of epidemiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, is one of four...
Gerontologist is lauded by national society
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., an expert in research and clinical care aimed at preventing disability among older persons, has received the 2012 Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of America.Gill, the Humana...
Stem cell scientist is the recipient of two awards
In July, President Obama named Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., the Maxine F. Singer ’57 Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology one of 96 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for...
Two international graduate students receive fellowships
Two Yale doctoral students have received fellowships through a new initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Sashka Dimitrievska, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Alice Qinhua Zhou, in...
Charity supports research childhood cancer survival
Nina S. Kadan-Lottick, M.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, has received a St. Baldrick’s Foundation Extended Scholar Award. The award extends Kadan-Lottick’s previous St. Baldrick’s Scholar Award, given...
Out & About
June 1 Alumni of the School of Medicine returned to campus in droves for an event-filled Reunion Weekend. (From left) Samir Bhatt, M.D. ’86, Ami Bhatt, M.D. ’87, and Robert H. Gifford, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and former deputy dean for education.
Alumni and members of the campus community paid tribute to the late Howard M. Spiro, M.D., founding chief of the Department of Internal Medicine’s Section of Gastroenterology from 1955 until 1982, and founder of the Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine in 1983.
Melissa Grafe, Ph.D., the John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, shares information from the library’s exhibit “Medicine in Shakespeare’s London.”
(From left) Gary B. Leydon, associate director of technology at the medical school, with Robert Adams, M.D. ’51, and Dawn Adams.
July 25 A concert by the Connecticut 102nd Army Band, featuring members of the U.S. National Guard, was held on Harkness Lawn. Spc. Donald Hensley of the Connecticut 102nd Army Rock Band.
Children and teachers from the Phyllis Bodel Childcare Program at the School of Medicine took in the music.
The Connecticut 102nd Army Brass Quintet, featuring (from left) Staff Sgt. Chris Schrock, Staff Sgt. Chris Desjardins, Spc. Jeff Motola, Sgt. 1st Class Chris Geist and Warrant Officer Chris Baillargeon.
August 24 High school students in the medical school’s Discovery to Cure Summer Internship Program presented original research they conducted over the summer in Harkness Auditorium, an event marking the program’s 10th anniversary. (From left) Gil G. Mor, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and Discovery to Cure director, with Amanda Kelly, a 2011 graduate of Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden, Conn.
(From left) Anirudh Sreekrishnan and Nathan Lifton.
(From left) Laura Yockey and Sasha Deutsch-Link.
August 17 All members of the School of Medicine’s incoming Class of 2012 received Apple iPads. The tablet computers have become a staple tool in the medical school’s curriculum (see related story). Daniel Yang.
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of medicine, gave this year’s keynote speech.
(From left) Jason Weed, Linh Vu, Jay Patel, Joyce Cheng, and Jake Wang.
(From left) Melissa Taylor, Durga Thakral, Sasha Deutsch-Link, Rebecca Treger, Linh Vu, Adesuwa Ighodaro, Deborah Ahove, Hiam Naiditch, and Emmanuel Ohuabunwa.
August 16 The School of Medicine formally welcomed the 100 members of the Class of 2016 (see related story) at the White Coat Ceremony, an annual event at which incoming medical students receive physician’s jackets. Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D., associate dean for student affairs, with David Asuzu.
August 13 Last year, the Yale-University College London (UCL) Collaborative launched the Yale–UCL Poetry Contest, open to medical and engineering students at both universities. (From left) Daniel Wong ’14, who placed first in this year’s contest; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Kevin Koo ’13, who placed second.
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