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A new Yale-led study published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum is the first to examine the overall relationship between pancreatic cancer and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors.

Anahita Bassir Nia, MD, assistant professor of psychisatry, has received an R01 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to investigate cannabinoid receptor type 1 availability in individuals with opioid use disorder.

Hyunjae Kim has been awarded one year of support through the 2026 YBII Postdoctoral Funding Program.

This summer, we saw a first-of-its-kind cross-sector collaboration – a leader in academic research and a national women’s health nonprofit joined forces to amplify the power of women’s health research and investment. The collaborative symposium “From Discovery to Impact: Accelerating Women's Health Research Through Science, Policy, and Investment” hosted by Women’s Health Research at Yale and the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) on June 15 in New Haven, Conn., welcomed more than 50 speakers, researchers from 28 departments across Yale, and gathered 350+ attendees for a day-long event that covered the power of women’s health research through an arc of discovery to practical impact.

Four Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging faculty were honored at the Yale Diagnostic Radiology Faculty Mentoring Awards ceremony on June 24.

Excessive drinking diminishes the brain’s ability to consume acetate, but it can make a full recovery.

Several internal awards recognizing outstanding contributions in various areas of service at Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) are awarded at an annual departmental event each spring. In addition, awards involving internal funding opportunities open to YCSC faculty, clinicians, or trainees are announced throughout each academic year. Recipients are announced internally on an ongoing basis, and an external announcement is typically published at the conclusion of each academic semester.

Members of the Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute applied for spring 2026 funding to support exploratory imaging studies or secondary data analysis studies that encourage collaboration between departments on topics with the potential to improve health and disease outcomes. Exploratory studies are critical to driving transformative and innovative biomedical advancements in biomedical imaging and jump-starting high-impact studies that lack preliminary data. We congratulate the Spring 2026 awardees!

Meet Filipe Moura, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), who recently received the Rising Star in Diabetes and Cardiorenal and Metabolic Medicine Award from The Metabolic Institute of America, which recognizes an early-career researcher for significant contributions to cardio-renal-metabolic medicine.