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Comparative Medicine hosts Special Seminars throughout the academic year
It gives me great pleasure to share with you the news that two of our faculty members will be honored at Deuel Conference of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology this coming March in San Diego, CA. Dr. Sabrina Diano, who is a secondary faculty in the Department of Comparative Medicine, and a member of the Yale ICSNM Program, (Professor & Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences at Yale), will receive The Journal of Clinical Investigation Lectureship Award. Dr. Jens Brüning, Adjunct Professor in Comparative Medicine (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, Germany) will receive the Journal of Lipid Research Lectureship Award. Please join me in congratulating these colleagues who have been strong contributors to the academic excellence of our Department.
Tamas Horvath
Jean and David W. Wallace Professor
& Chair
The medical use of marijuana has been approved in Connecticut and neighboring states. However, there is a lack of understanding in the medical community regarding the biological principles of ingredients of the cannabis plant at a systemic level. Also less well known is how the endogenous cannabinoid system present in humans and animal species may respond to herbal cannabis derivatives.
Yale-Cajal Joint Symposium on Neurobiology
