YSM News and Recognition
Uncovering why some escaped severe COVID while others suffered and succumbed; revealing an impediment to cancer immunotherapy; and brain activity related to alcohol cravings differs by sex.
News
- May 01, 2024
One of the largest multiomics analyses to date examines hallmarks associated with COVID-19 severity and mortality, and how these factors interact with one another.
- May 06, 2024
More than half of human cancers, called “non-inflamed” or “cold” tumors, are not being effectively infiltrated by cancer-fighting T cells. Essentially, the soldiers are excluded from the battlefield. Yale Cancer Center researchers want to know why.
- May 06, 2024Source: Yale News
Brain activity related to alcohol craving and future heavy drinking is different across sexes, a new study finds, which could have implications for treatment.
- May 03, 2024Source: Yale News
Patients with PTSD experience both emotional numbness and hyperreactivity. A new study digs into how these contrasting symptoms are linked.
- May 02, 2024
The three from Yale School of Medicine are among six elected from the full university, and 502 newly elected this year in total, as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- May 06, 2024
Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a leading expert in the study of social networks and biosocial science. His research focuses mainly on the social, mathematical, and biological rules governing how social networks form and the biological implications of how they operate to influence thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.
- May 02, 2024
In a span of three weeks, Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, was named to two prestigious Time100 lists. The first, published on April 17, named the world's 100 most influential people. The second, on May 2, specified the most influential people in health.
Recognition
Cipriano and Strambler's Analysis Is Recognized as Top Cited Article
In July 2023, Christina Cipriano, PhD, MEd (left), associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center, and Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, and their interdisciplinary team of 10 researchers published a comprehensive meta-analysis consisting of 424 experimental studies of K-12 social emotional learning (SEL) programming, reflecting over 50 counties and more than 250 discrete SEL programs over the past decade. The study has now been recognized as the top cited article in 2022-2023 in Child Development.
Farhadian Earns Osler Young Investigator Award
Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious disease) and of epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, received the Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award at the Interurban Clinical Club's recent meeting.
Med Ed Names 18 Faculty to Give Longitudinal Coaching
The Office of Medical Education has designated 18 faculty members as coaches for YSM's Longitudinal Coaching Program. The initiative is designed to help increase student engagement in meaningful and innovative opportunities to learn and monitor their own progress toward attaining competency. Read more here, including names of the faculty members who were appointed.
Morrison and Ananth Are Honored by AAHPM for Work in Hospice and Palliative Care
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has named Laura Morrison, MD (left), associate professor of medicine (geriatrics) and director of hospice and palliative medicine education, as one of the most influential leaders in hospice and palliative care. It also has named Prasanna Ananth, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics, as an emerging leader in the field.
Ökten Wins 3-Minute Thesis Competition With Talk on Norovirus Vaccine
Arya Ökten, a graduate student in immunobiology, won this year's highly competitive 3-Minute Thesis Competition. The title of her talk was "Making a Norovirus Vaccine: All Good Things Take Time." Currently, there is no commercially available norovirus vaccine. Ökten's thesis work is focused on understanding the shortcomings of current vaccine candidates and determining how we can improve them — in particular, by identifying the immune factors most important for preventing norovirus infection.