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The Kavli Institute for Neuroscience is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Kavli Innovative Teams Award.

A new study on a gene called VPS13C adds to growing evidence that lysosomal dysfunction may be one mechanism through which Parkinson’s disease arises.

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.

Scientists at Yale School of Medicine think so, and an initiative funded by the Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation is supporting efforts to find out more about how inflammation and immune responses contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

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.