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For the past six years, Valerie Reinke, PhD, has served as vice chair of the Department of Genetics, and since July, she has held the role of interim chair.

Yale President Peter Salovey hosted a celebration of stem cell biologist Haifan Lin as he received the Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Yale Cancer Center annual Conclave in New Haven, March 26, 2024 include research and clinical awards. The four research awards are for: Clinical Cancer Research, Translational Science Research, Population Science Research, and Basic Cancer Research. Nine other awards are granted, including the Ruth McCorkle Oncology Advanced Practice Provider Award, the Class of '61 Cancer Research Awards, Clinical Excellence Award, Mentorship Excellence Award, Teaching Excellence Award, Service Excellence Award, Director's Awards, the Leadership in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Institutional support, federal funding, philanthropy and grants are the support that make cancer research possible.

Thirteen members of the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) faculties have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). In all, 35 of Connecticut’s leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine were elected this year.

Yale's Center for Infection & Immunity, directed by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, will lead the funded research.

In her Nature Cell Biology piece, Karla Neugebauer discusses linking cell biology with climate change, highlighting her course on Biochemistry and Climate. She emphasizes the molecular basis of environmental impacts. Neugebauer urges integrating climate change into STEM curricula for a holistic understanding and inspires action from the next generation.

Dr. Giulia Biancon, an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, has been honored with the 2024 Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology by the RNA Society and EclipseBio for her contributions to RNA biology, particularly in myeloid malignancies.

Scientist Haifan Lin has been awarded the Francis Amory Prize in Reproductive Medicine and Physiology by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.