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Three Research Scientists and four Yale School of Medicine faculty of the Yale Cancer Center were celebrated in mid-February 2025 during a celebration in downtown New Haven.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded a five-year R01 grant to Serena Spudich, MD, MA, Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology; Todd Constable, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology; and Lindsay McAlpine, MD, assistant professor of neurology for research that will employ the use of novel neuroimaging to understand the brain changes that occur alongside the neurologic symptoms of Long COVID.

Yale’s Amir Haji-Akbari, Tristan Geiller, Ian Moult, and Shreya Saxena have received 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.

Meet Ehimen Aneni, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), who is a general and preventive cardiologist with a special interest in cardiometabolic health, including people who have clinical sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, high BMI, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and other related health issues. He is also a clinical scientist who studies the connections between sleep apnea and heart health.

Antoneta Gavoci, PhD, from the laboratory of Shaul Yogev, and Stephanie Staszko, PhD, from the laboratory of Alfred Kaye, have been selected to receive the 2025 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity.

The American Society for Clinical Investigation honors new members for translational research excellence.

Nominations are now open for the Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Trainee Award. The Yale Department of Medicine established an annual Physician-Scientist Trainee Award in memory of Iva Dostanic, whose intelligence, creativity, work ethic, accomplishments, and passion for the science of medicine exemplified the highest ideals of the physician-scientist.

Over the course of her Pilot Project funded by Women’s Health Research at Yale, Carolyn Fredericks, MD, assistant professor of neurology, forged interdisciplinary partnerships to propel her research forward.

One of Women’s Health Research at Yale’s major initiatives is to mentor the next generation of health care professionals and researchers about the value of studying the influence of sex on health and disease as well as ensuring that findings are translated into clinical care.