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Anahita Bassir Nia, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been selected as a funding recipient of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Early-Stage Investigator Assistance Program.
- November 15, 2024
Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor Emily Olfson is one of four 2024 Young Investigator Award recipients from the Tourette Association of America (TAA). Each awardee will receive $150,000 over two years to support their Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder research.
- November 13, 2024
Two Yale School of Medicine scientists have been awarded a five-year, $76 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their project titled, “ProCAN: Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Compound Assessment Network,” as part of the Accelerated Medicines Partnership® – Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ). Scott W. Woods, MD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, and Youngsun T. Cho, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, will lead the five-year study in collaboration with investigators from 17 other research sites.
- November 13, 2024
Seven Yale School of Medicine faculty receive Yale Faculty Innovation Awards.
- October 31, 2024Source: Yae Daily News
Six Yale researchers were awarded highly prestigious ‘High-Risk, High-Reward’ grants from the National Institutes of Health, which are designed to give scientists the freedom to pursue higher-risk research with the potential for transformative impact across multiple fields. The Yale researchers — Dr. Salil Garg, Dr. Diyendo Massilani, Dr. Wan-Ling Tseng, Dr. Sedona Murphy, Dr. Julien Berro and Dr. Xiaolei Su — pursue research projects in disciplines ranging from cellular heterogeneity to chronic childhood irritability. With support from the grant, these researchers hope to expand their unique, “high-risk” research projects.
- October 15, 2024
Two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers and a scientist from the Yale Department of Neuroscience have been awarded Young Investigator Grants from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Terril L. Verplaetse, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry; Heather Snell, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience; and Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are among 150 early career scientists worldwide honored with the award.
- October 09, 2024Source: Yale News
Two Yale Cancer Center members are among six Yale researchers to receive High-Risk, High-Reward NIH grants.
- October 09, 2024
Rozalyn Rodwin, MD, Director of the HEROS Childhood Cancer Survivorship Clinic at Yale, accepts a $100,000 donation from Hyundai Hope on Wheels to benefit childhood cancer research at Yale.
- October 07, 2024
Ashley Schnakenberg Martin, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded the 2024 American Psychological Association Division 18 Psychologists in Public Service Early Career Achievement Award.
- October 03, 2024
Yale Cancer Center physicians and trainees attended the 2024 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, September 29-October 2, 2024 to present clinical and research advances from Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital. The ASTRO meeting offered engaging education and scientific sessions, as well as poster presentations and workshop series. Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital faculty and Radiation Oncology Residents participated in over two dozen presentations at the meeting, which focused on the theme, "Targeting Provider Wellness for Exceptional Patient Care."