Medicine@Yale

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

Since the early stages of the pandemic, the Yale community has acted quickly and generously to support the university’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, with many individuals and groups coming forward to contribute not only with funds, but with vital supplies. Now that the coronavirus has become..

Immunotherapies, which unleash the immune system on cancers, have revolutionized cancer treatment but have so far had limited efficacy against the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma. Many immunotherapies spur T cells to go after tumors by blocking checkpoint proteins that normally restrain the..

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.