Child Study Center News
The international Road Safety and Simulation (RSS) conference series was established in Rome in 2007 and has since then provided a bi-annual platform for researchers and professionals from various disciplines to share expertise and the latest insights in the field of road safety and simulation. This year's conference will be hosted by the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS), a self-sustained transportation safety research center in the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering. During this year's conference (October 14th - 17th), Drs. Barbara Banz, Federico Vaca and Kaigang Li will present findings from several ongoing driving simulation and epidemiological studies.
- October 09, 2019
Yale researchers have developed a method to induce growth of blood vessels in organoids and prevent the death of cells, which has hindered efforts of scientists studying brain development.
- October 08, 2019
A newly dedicated building welcomes children who receive clinical care at the Yale Child Study Center.
- October 08, 2019
Yale University and the Botín Foundation will co-host the inaugural International Conference on Creativity, Emotions, and the Arts from Oct. 9 to 11 at the Botín Centre in Santander, Spain.
- October 08, 2019
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is pleased to announce Dr. Yuen as the recipient of AACAP's 2019 Pilot Research Award for Junior Faculty and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows, supported by AACAP
- October 07, 2019
Henry Klar Yaggi, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine; vice chief of Research at Yale’s Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, director of the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine, and an investigator at the VA CT Clinical Epidemiology Research Center (CERC) was recently awarded a grant through The Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or the NIH HEAL Initiative.
- October 01, 2019
Yale School of Medicine’s Valentina Greco and Marina R. Picciotto are among the 11 recipients of the National Institutes of Health’s Pioneer Award, which recognizes scientists who have a history of creative research and who show promise in originating “pioneering approaches to major challenges.” Greco and Picciotto will each receive $3.5 million dollars of funding over the course of five years. In addition, four young Yale scientists will receive the NIH’s Innovator Award.
- October 01, 2019
Yale researchers representing a range of disciplines have been awarded grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL). This national effort provides $945 million in total funding to support a variety of research projects that tackle the opioid addiction and overdose crisis.
- September 30, 2019
Lynn E Fiellin, MD, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and the Child Study Center; and founder/director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale and the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, was recently awarded a grant through The Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or the NIH HEAL Initiative.
- September 26, 2019
A 2018 study by Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, is cited in a Wall Street Journal Report that investigates brain differences that cause boys to be more interested in video games and girls to spend more time on social media.
