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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.

The laboratories of Prof. Elena Gracheva (C&M Physiology, Neuroscience, Kavli Institute) and Prof. Slav Bagriantsev (C&M Physiology) discover a neurophysiological mechanism that enables long-term survival of hibernating squirrels without water. The study is published in the Science journal https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp8358

Yale’s Amir Haji-Akbari, Tristan Geiller, Ian Moult, and Shreya Saxena have received 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.

The US Food and Drug Administration signed off Thursday on the first new type of pain reliever to be approved in more than two decades.

Antoneta Gavoci, PhD, from the laboratory of Shaul Yogev, and Stephanie Staszko, PhD, from the laboratory of Alfred Kaye, have been selected to receive the 2025 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity.

Scientists have discovered a configuration of electrical synapses that “filter” sensory information to guide perception and behavior in animals.

The biological phenomenon borders on sci-fi.