Medicine@Yale

“Yale has taken me full circle,” says pediatrician Susan Beris, MD. “My professional life began here when I did my residency training.

About half of people diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), in which patches of lung become damaged, die within three to five years of diagnosis. To probe the mechanisms behind this disease, a Yale-led collaboration investigated the gene expression patterns found in samples from..

When patients need a vascular graft, as during heart bypass surgery, surgeons often use blood vessels from elsewhere in the body, but these are not always available. As an alternative, Yale researchers led by Yibing Qyang, PhD, associate professor of medicine (cardiology) and of pathology, are..

Few pivotal life moments can be traced to a single letter. But Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD, Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience, and professor of comparative medicine, of genetics, and of psychiatry, vividly remembers flipping the thin pages of a medical encyclopedia set that his mother..

Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, PhD, and Michelle L.

“If you have dyslexia,” says Karen Pritzker, a filmmaker and philanthropist, “you are part of one of the world’s largest secret fraternities. ” Dyslexia affects one in five Americans, including Pritzker.

Yale University has been designated by The Hartwell Foundation as a Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research for 2020, garnering this distinction for its strengths in child health research in alignment with the foundation’s philanthropic mission. As a Top Ten Center, Yale will have the opportunity..

Because many viruses have RNA genomes, the immune system has developed systems for detecting and attacking foreign RNA. Yale researchers have exploited this system to set the immune system on cancers, as reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

The Yale Center for Genomic Health, founded in 2018 as the home of Generations, a comprehensive DNA sequencing project, has entered a new phase with the recruitment of Ira M. Hall, PhD, an expert in human genome sequencing and integrative data science, as the center’s director.

Samuel Ball, PhD, professor of psychiatry, and Jonathan N. Grauer, MD, professor and vice chair of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, became associate deans for faculty affairs, representing non-surgical and surgical departments respectively, effective at the start of 2020.