Recent YSCC Discoveries

Discoveries & Impact highlights select scientific discoveries per section across the Department of Internal Medicine...

The Yale Liver Center looks to the future of liver care

Liver cancer starts in the cells of the liver — a vital internal organ that performs many important functions, including storing nutrients that the body uses for energy, removing harmful chemicals and other substances from the blood, and making bile to help the body digest fat from food.

The Janeway Society was formed in 2021 by Keith Choate, MD, PhD, associate dean for physician-scientist development to create infrastructure and oversight for career development and to shorten the time to independence at Yale.

Laboratory researchers may not have sufficient training in the skills needed to form and manage an independent laboratory when they make the transition to Principal Investigator. A group of Yale researchers, including Valentina Greco (SWIM) addressed these challenges using principles from organizational management to navigate the groups and cultural norms of the medical school.

Naftali Kaminski, MD, was honored by the American Thoracic Society as the J. Burns Amberson Lecturer, an award that recognizes a career of major lifetime contributions.

Irina Krykbaeva, a recent PhD graduate in the Department of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, is the winner of the 2022 Milton C. Winternitz Prize in Pathology. The prize is awarded annually to the student who, in the opinion of the department faculty and staff, has done outstanding work in the course.

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Members of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine (Yale-PCCSM) at Yale School of Medicine were honored during the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2022 International Conference in San Francisco.