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The Katz Lab in the Department of Pathology was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study the role of a protein called BOK in cell death of neurons.
- July 11, 2024Source: Yale Ventures
The Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Yale is pleased to announce the eleven 2024 Yale projects selected for their promising research in autoimmunity and allergic diseases. In addition to grant funding, Colton Center awardees receive mentorship, access to industry expertise, and feedback on their potential commercialization.
- March 20, 2023
The AHA Career Development Award helps health care and academic professionals launch high-impact careers.
- November 29, 2022Source: YaleNews
Yale researchers have found that the disease’s debilitating symptoms may be the result of swelling caused by amyloid plaques in the brain.
- January 14, 2022
The causes of dementia remain largely unknown to medicine. Scientists and researchers are working hard to connect what is known with gaps in treatment, and illuminating those mysteries that have yet to be resolved.
- May 10, 2021
Nelson Perez Catalan discovered he was interested in pursuing science while working at a student job at the University of Oregon cleaning glass in the labs. He found himself drawn to research around the brain, and thought about pursuing an MD/PhD, but there was no medical school at his university and as a transplant from Chile, he says much of the U.S. college process was mystifying to him. Then he learned about PATHS, or Program to Advance Training in Health and Sciences at Yale School of Medicine.
- June 26, 2020
Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine develop a process to watch how cells in the brain die and the clean up that happens afterwards.
- February 04, 2020
The purpose of this Yale mini-symposium is to highlight the huge unmet clinical need to understand the pathophysiology of small vessel disease to inform future therapeutic efforts to reduce the burden of this illness due to cognitive impairment and dementia. In particular the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie diffuse white matter disease and small vessel disease in the brain, the relationships between them, and how they may contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia.
- May 28, 2019
Dr. Jaime Grutzendler was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
- February 19, 2019
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering has elected 24 new members. Thirteen are Yale faculty members, of whom nine have appointments at the School of Medicine.