CBDS News & Events

James Noonan, PhD was recently appointed Albert E. Kent endowed Professorship in Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine.

Makoto Mori, MD, PhD, and Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, used a digital platform to collect patient-reported outcomes data after cardiac surgery.

Yale Cancer Center scientists have developed a novel technology that for the first time enables massively parallel DNA substitutions (known as “knock-ins”) into human cells by taking advantage of messenger RNA (mRNA), a platform now well-known from its use as the COVID vaccine vehicle.

Data scientists in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics are using advanced mathematical modeling to help public health professionals identify effective interventions and strategies to address today’s complex public health issues. By applying creative computer simulation and analysis, our scientists are pioneering new ways of investigating public health data in situations where more traditional forms of research are difficult to do due to logistical, temporal, or other barriers.

A new open-source software package called cancereffectsizeR developed by the Townsend Lab greatly improves the ability of data scientists and clinical analysts to pinpoint specific genetic mutations that drive cancer.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models in healthcare have the potential to improve the precision and speed of personalized medicine for patients, in some cases helping to identify the best treatment or preventive care. Clinicians are already implementing these models in areas such as early detection of sepsis and analyzing radiology images for diagnosis of prostate cancer and other conditions. It’s a growing area of interest that laboratory medicine professionals should pay attention to, as data generated by laboratory testing is a major component incorporated into AI tools to generate clinical decisions.

The Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics is experiencing the end of an era. Four senior faculty representing more than 120 years of teaching and research experience have either recently retired or soon will retire. The work of these distinguished leaders in biostatistics at Yale – Robert Makuch, Theodore Holford, Peter Peduzzi, and Daniel Zelterman - helped define the department as it exists today.

Kleinstein has made fundamental contributions to immunology through the development and application of innovative computational methods.

The School of Medicine hosted its second annual Yale Single Cell Symposium on October 28. Featuring over 20 speakers and hosting over 200 attendees, it was an opportunity for students, post docs, and faculty alike to gather together and foster connections.