Medicine@Yale

The center will have an ambitious goal: to produce better diagnoses, treatments, and ultimately cures for these diseases. It will also work toward vaccine development.

Seventeen years after it began, in 2005, publication of Medicine@Yale is coming to an end with this issue.

In his new role, Winer is working to promote paradigm-changing dis- covery and to build an unparalleled clinical program that offers seamless, multidisciplinary care and clinical trials to all patients, eliminating dis- parities in access, care, and outcomes.

Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA, was appointed chair of the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and chief of Urology at Yale New Haven Hospital.

McGovern will participate actively in the senior leadership group of the medical school’s academic health system and play a key role in setting and realizing strategic goals. As deputy dean for clinical affairs, she will serve as the physician leader who represents the clinical mission of the School of Medicine in all venues.

Damage to nerves of the brain and spinal cord is particularly devastating because these nerves do not grow back on their own. Perhaps, suggests a Yale-led study, they could regrow with a little help from science.

This result highlights the importance of studying ASD in females rather than assuming that what is true for mostly male study populations also applies to females.

Indra Nooyi was so impressed by Albert Ko’s extensive knowledge and scientific approach that she and her husband, Raj Nooyi, a global supply chain executive, contributed a $3 million gift to establish the Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health at Yale.

Yale University, in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim, announced the launch of a Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program designed to at- tract and support some of the brightest and most innovative minds in data science from around the world.

In a clinical trial led by Kevan Herold, MD, teplizumab prevented or delayed clinical diagnosis.