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Postdoctoral Fellow Soumya Yandamuri, MSE PhD is one of five recipients of the 2023 Yale Mentoring Award. The award recognizes Dr. Yandamuri's exceptional dedication to mentoring undergraduates and graduates in the O'Connor Lab, as well as graduate students in the Women in Science at Yale program.

Gianvito Masi, MD, a neurologist in the lab of Kevin O’Connor, PhD, has been selected as a MGNet Scholar by the Myasthenia Gravis Rare Disease Network (MGNet), which is part of the National Institutes of Health’s Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. The grant, “Investigating immune mechanisms underlying checkpoint inhibitor myasthenia gravis,” funds two years of research and will begin in June 2022.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Soumya Yandamuri, MSE, PhD has been awarded the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant, “Isolation and characterization of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein monoclonal antibodies,” funds three years and will begin in July 2021.

The Department of Neurology is pleased to announce that Kevin O’Connor has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

The National Institutes of Health through the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortia has awarded a research team from Yale University, George Washington University, and Duke University $7.8 million to establish a rare disease network for myasthenia gravis.

A team led by IBIO faculty members, Eric Meffre and Kevin O’Connor, explored both B cell tolerance and the origins of pathogenic autoantibodies in neuromyelitis optica (NMO), a severe autoimmune neurological disease that primarily affects young women.

The autoimmune response that is involved in multiple sclerosis (MS) was once thought to be confined to the brain. Yale researchers, however, have uncovered evidence that this damaging response may begin in the lymph nodes.