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The North American Vascular Biology Organization will give its Judah Folkman Award in Vascular Biology to Anne Eichmann, PhD, Ensign Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and professor of cellular and molecular physiology; and its Earl P. Benditt Award to William Sessa, PhD, Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and professor of medicine (cardiology).
- March 11, 2019Source: North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO)
The NAVBO Meritorious Awards Committee and Council is pleased to announce the selection of William Sessa, PhD, as the 2019 recipient of the Earl P. Benditt Award, in recognition of his numerous contributions to our understanding of mechanisms regulating nitric oxide production in the vascular endothelium.
- February 13, 2017Source: Office of Cooperative Research
Seventeen applications from Yale innovators have been named finalists for grants and resources from the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, competing for up to $300,000 in Development grants or up to $100,000 in Pilot grants to accelerate their life science research into the marketplace. The $10 million fund supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation launched this year to advance entrepreneurship in the life sciences at Yale and is managed by the Yale Office of Cooperative Research. Over 60 researchers applied for funding from across the Yale science disciplines, including chemistry, pharmacology, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, obstetrics, biophysics and immunobiology.
- November 20, 2016
A Yale-led research team identified a protein that plays an important role in the buildup of LDL cholesterol in blood vessels.
- June 14, 2016
William Sessa, the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine, is an inaugural recipient of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Merit Award.
- June 10, 2016Source: American Heart Association
The American Heart Association on Friday awarded its first Merit Awards to fund highly promising investigators who have the potential to move a field of science forward with creative approaches. The awards, each for $1 million doled out over five years, went to a researcher at Duke University School of Medicine and another at Yale University School of Medicine.
- March 14, 2014
The Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC) is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Yale Calabresi Prize in Basic Cardiovascular Research.
- January 20, 2014
An international research team spearheaded by William C. Sessa, the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and professor of medicine (cardiology), has been awarded a $6 million Transatlantic Networks of Excellence grant from the Fondation Leducq in France.
- April 29, 2013
Yale School of Medicine and the North American Vascular Biology Organization are pleased to present a special symposium, “Lymphatic Circulation in Health and Disease,” on Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.
- April 18, 2011
William C. Sessa, newly designated as the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology, is an expert on blood vessel function and vascular disease.