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In this week's #TraineeTuesday, we highlight Yue Fei, PhD, a graduate student in the Liang Lab at Yale, who recently defended his PhD thesis. His exciting research on motion perception is currently under revision at a prominent journal.

This week, we’re spotlighting Calvin Fang, an MD-PhD student at Yale who recently succeeded in defending his dissertation, finishing his PhD! While he is still working on finalizing his publication, closing his lab work, Calvin has traded microscopes for stethoscopes as he resumes his clinical journey.

On March 27, 2025, a large group of current and former colleagues and students of Michael Schwartz, PhD, gathered in the team-based learning room in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML) to celebrate him on his retirement from his leadership roles in medical education at Yale School of Medicine. An art installation that four medical students created as a tribute to Schwartz was unveiled. The work is now permanently located in the CWML team-based learning classroom.

In this week's #TraineeTuesday, we feature Reagan Lamb, PhD, a postdoctoral associate recently awarded the Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Experimental Track at Yale. This fellowship provides three years of funding for Reagan to pursue interdisciplinary research, combining her background of genetics and molecular biology.

Twelve Yale School of Medicine faculty members are among the leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine newly elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

This #TraineeTuesday, we introduce Sydney Cason, PhD, a Postdoctoral Associate in the De Camilli Lab! She was recently awarded the Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, a prestigious private award that provides three years of salary and research allowance.

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center, of neuroscience and of pharmacology, has been elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

This year’s awardees are tackling some of the most urgent life science challenges with projects spanning novel therapeutics to AI-powered medical solutions.

Yale School of Medicine now ranks third in the nation for NIH funding, according to the most recent report from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.