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This week at Yale School of Medicine (YSM): Researchers test tools to help identify inaccurate antibiotic allergies; study uncovers genetic differences associated with painful endometriosis; ambient AI scribes don't impair medical students' clinical note writing.
- September 17, 2026
Yale researchers are improving the treatment of childhood anxiety by investigating all aspects of the disorder, down to the molecular level.
- June 25, 2026
Several internal awards recognizing outstanding contributions in various areas of service at Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) are awarded at an annual departmental event each spring. In addition, awards involving internal funding opportunities open to YCSC faculty, clinicians, or trainees are announced throughout each academic year. Recipients are announced internally on an ongoing basis, and an external announcement is typically published at the conclusion of each academic semester.
- April 07, 2026Source: Autism Science Foundation
Congratulations to Ines Choi, undergraduate research assistant in the Vaccarino lab for receiving ASF’s Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship, which supports hands-on research aimed at improving the lives of individuals with autism.
- July 03, 2025Source: Yale News
In a multi-institution project, scientists will track genetic mutations occurring across the lifetime of 150 healthy individuals with the aim of understanding how they affect development, aging, and disease.
- July 03, 2025Source: Springer Nature
Coorens, T.H.H., Oh, J.W., Choi, Y.A. et al. The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network. Nature 643, 47–59 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7
- May 01, 2025Source: Yale News
A new Yale study offers new insight into how morphogens help regulate the development of stem cells into specialized brain cells.
- May 01, 2025Source: Elsevier
Specification of human brain regions with orthogonal gradients of WNT and SHH in organoids reveals patterning variations across cell lines. Scuderi S, Kang TY, Jourdon A, Nelson A, Yang L, Wu F, Anderson GM, Mariani J, Tomasini L, Sarangi V, Abyzov A, Levchenko A, Vaccarino FM. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Apr 28; 2025 Apr 28. PMID: 40315847.
- April 15, 2025Source: Society of Biological Psychiatry
Interneuron loss and microglia activation by transcriptome analyses in the basal ganglia of Tourette disorder. Wang Y, Fasching L, Wu F, Suvakov M, Huttner A, Berretta S, Roberts R, Leckman JF, Fernandez TV, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 30; 2025 Jan 30. PMID: 39892689.
- March 11, 2025Source: Yale News
Yale researchers take a deep dive into studies about hearing, nanowire assembly, heart imaging, photosynthesis, Tourette disorder, and AI in scientific writing.