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In 2026, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research is thrilled to award a total of $7 million in childhood cancer research grants to 94 researchers across 48 institutions worldwide.

The researchers joined the Immune Cell Reprogramming team, which aims to harness immune cells for health surveillance and disease treatment.

Berna Sozen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Awarded annually by the Vilcek Foundation, the prize honors immigrant contributions to science and culture in the United States.

Al Powers, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and psychology, has been named winner of the Research Excellence Award by the Schizophrenia International Research Society.

Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been selected to receive the 2026 Young Investigator Award from the International Narcotics Research Conference. The honor recognizes emerging leaders whose research is advancing the study of opioid pharmacology and function.

The American Society for Clinical Investigation is one of the nation’s oldest medical honor societies.

Youth with behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study led by Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor Karim Ibrahim, PsyD. Their brains appear to get stuck in states with disrupted connections in areas of the brain important for attention, flexibility in thinking, and regulating emotions.

Liang Liang, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious, two-year fellowship awarded to the most promising early-career researchers in the United States and Canada.

Yale’s John Eric Humphries, Liang Liang, and Diana Y. Qiu have received 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.