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We are excited to welcome our 2024 summer undergraduate researchers!
Why complete a fellowship in infectious diseases? How long is an infectious diseases fellowship? What is the best infectious diseases fellowship program? Upon completion of a residency program, many physicians may pursue a fellowship program to develop expertise in a medical subspecialty of their choice. For those who are interested in areas such as vector-borne disease, microbial pathogenesis, global health, HIV, public health, transplant infectious diseases, or hospital epidemiology and want to become an infectious diseases doctor, the next step is to complete additional training in infectious diseases.
Barbara Kazmierczak, MD, PhD, Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation MD/PhD Program Director and Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; and director, MD/PhD Program, has been named vice chair, Basic Research, for the Department of Internal Medicine, effective immediately.
Dennis Shung, MD, MHS, PhD, and Benjamin Goldman-Israelow, MD, PhD, are celebrated as the 2022 Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, Physician-Scientist Trainee Award honorees.
Irina Krykbaeva, a recent PhD graduate in the Department of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, is the winner of the 2022 Milton C. Winternitz Prize in Pathology. The prize is awarded annually to the student who, in the opinion of the department faculty and staff, has done outstanding work in the course.
Anis Barmada, an MD/PhD student, receives Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
MD/PhD student Kingson Lin receives Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
CASE has elected a total of 35 new members, of whom 15 are from YSM/YSPH and three others are from FAS.
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Assistant Professors of Immunobiology Carrie Lucas, PhD, and Aaron Ring, MD, PhD, recently received Young Investigator Awards from the International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS).
As of January 1, 2021, we are joined by two new Associate Directors to the MD-PhD Program, Drs. Michael Cappello and Silvia Vilarinho.
The lessons of 2020 – delivered by the pandemic, protests against racism, political division, irrefutable evidence of climate change – are too important to forget. . Likewise, the (perhaps uncomfortable) insights that we gained about ourselves and how we cope with adversity and uncertainty shouldn’t gather too much dust even as our challenges again become quotidian. So, more sober and wise, we look to 2021.
Hello to everyone, from this strange new world where people live in boxes on a computer screen. (My box has a nice view of a vineyard in Burgundy, reminding me of a time when scientists still did things like travel to meetings and follow them with family vacations.)
Heartfelt greetings from Yale and the MD-PhD program in these most unusual times. I sincerely hope that this email finds you and your loved ones well, while knowing that many of you are on the front lines of a medical, scientific and public health battle against Covid-19.
Most people attend medical school to become physicians; some, however, use their degrees to pursue other goals.
Perhaps it is natural that December is a time to both look back and look forward—the year that was, the year that is coming—but there seem to be many important transitions to note for 2020.
The school's newest students take their place among the giants who preceded them.
Summer has finally arrived in New Haven: sunny blue skies and temperatures in the 80s welcomed MD-PhD students having a paella cook-out at Sleeping Giant (hosted by Drew Daniels and the Student Council) this weekend. Traffic in town has eased up, as schools go into summer break mode, and the Green is blocked off for the annual Festival of Arts and Ideas.
The Amgen Scholars Program at Yale is a partnership between the Amgen Foundation and the Yale School of Medicine MD-PhD and Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD programs. The goal of the program is to recruit students from under-represented groups to biomedical careers and help them succeed as scientists or physician-scientists.
Woong Hwang, a fifth-year MD-PhD student at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), is one of 30 newly-announced recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, seven of whom are Yale-affiliated. All fellows are children of immigrants to the United States, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival recipients, green card holders, or naturalized citizens, who are pursuing graduate school in the U.S.
Dr. Barbara Kazmierczak, newly named as the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation M.D.-Ph.D. Program Director, focuses her research on bacterial and host factors that allow opportunistic infections to occur.