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Yale’s Department of Internal Medicine established an annual physician-scientist trainee award in memory of Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, whose intelligence, creativity, work ethic, accomplishments, and passion for the science of medicine exemplified the highest ideals of the physician-scientist.

This year, 24% of new residents in Yale New Haven Hospital (YNNH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM)’s Graduate Medical Education programs are from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URiM), more than double last year’s figures.

Yale professors share what is known and unknown about the Omicron variant and highlight the pressing need for global vaccine equity.

When the omicron variant of COVID-19 was first identified in South Africa, the country's scientists were quick to inform global health leaders of the new mutations they had found.

President Biden on Monday rebutted criticism that the United States is hoarding doses of coronavirus vaccines at the expense of South Africa and other middle- and low-income countries, pointing to the fact that South Africa has turned down additional doses in recent days.

Yale Cancer Center is home to a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Lung Cancer, which provides funding from the National Cancer Institute to translate research from Yale laboratories to our clinics. I actively participate in the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer as the diagnostic pathologist on the team. Our current focus is on advancing targeted treatment options for lung cancer to benefit our patients using immunotherapy and molecular treatments.

Research provides insights into how blood vessels regulate various processes and, as they do so, what goes wrong in disease.