Recent YSCC Discoveries
Melody Rivera-Hernández, a PhD candidate in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award (F31) by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- August 27, 2026Source: Nature Communications
Stress and inflammation influence the developing brain and are associated with mental health outcomes. In a paper in Nature Communications, Kristen Brennand, PhD, and colleagues show that common genetic risk dynamically interacts with immune responses in human neurons.
- August 10, 2026
New research from Yale School of Medicine's Madhav Menon, MD, MBBS, identifies a potential genetic mechanism underlying the increased risk of kidney transplant rejection in some patients of recent African ancestry.
- July 24, 2026
Yale School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences' alumni returned to campus for the 18th Annual Yale Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (YOGS) meeting.
- July 23, 2026
The Center for Brain & Mind Health Pilot Program is the center's annual keystone initiative, embodying its core value of interdisciplinary collaboration as a driver of clinically relevant neuroscience.
- July 23, 2026
MHS degree program names Oliver Karam, MD, PhD, as Director and Naftali Kaminski, MD, as Co-Director of the Clinical Investigation concentration.
- July 20, 2026
Yale School of Medicine researchers are part of an international team developing an AI platform that can accelerate development of precision medicine approaches.
- July 17, 2026
Women’s Health Research at Yale announced the five latest pilot projects to join its program, and a partnership with Yale Cancer Center.
- July 17, 2026Source: Record-Journal (with Geoffrey Chupp, MD)
“I think it is definitely having a psychological effect on all of us because this is now at least three years in a row,” said Dr. Geoffrey Chupp, director of the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease, speaking of the wildfire smoke.
- July 16, 2026Source: WFSB
An air quality alert was issued for all of Connecticut through Thursday as smoke drifted down from Canada. Yale School of Medicine's Geoffrey Chupp, MD, offers recommendations for ways to minimize exposure.