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Last week, WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters) announced the 10 recipients of the 2025 WHAM Edge Awards. Two Yale postdoctoral fellows, Domenica Berardi, PhD, and Na-Young Rho, PhD, have been awarded $25,000 grants for their projects investigating colorectal cancer in women and ovarian aging respectively.

Stress can cause inflammation and damage the heart. Yale experts recommend ways to manage that stress and keep your heart healthy.

Yale School of Medicine faculty members were recognized for publishing studies that rank in the top 1% based on the number of citations they received in their field.

Dean Nancy J. Brown, MD, participated in a conference panel where experts discussed the challenges faced by the biomedical workforce and how to ensure a strong future.

When Sharon Chekijian, MD, MPH, arrived in Armenia this fall, she was returning to a country where she has spent years working to establish a sustainable foundation for the specialty of emergency medicine. In recent years, the nation has faced multiple crises, from the COVID-19 pandemic to regional conflict, that have contributed to repeated waves of Armenian refugees arriving from Syria, Beirut, Iran, and the neighboring Republic of Artsakh. Chekijian’s efforts have focused on strengthening Armenia’s ability to respond to such crises.

Yajaira Suárez, PhD, has won the Judah Folkman Award for her research in vascular biology.

Darin A. Latimore, MD, was selected to receive this year’s Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Exemplary Leadership Award from the Group on Collaboration, Engagement, and Community (GCEC). Dr. Latimore is YSM’s deputy dean for Collaborative Excellence and associate professor of General Internal Medicine.

At HLTH this week, Jessica Federer stood on the main stage and declared that the time for incrementalism in women's health is over. The founder and managing partner of The Women's Health Fund announced a new vehicle designed not just to invest in women's health companies, but to systematically build a market that has been under-recognized, under-funded and under-prioritized. Dr. Basmah Safdar, Director of Women’s Health Research at Yale and Founding Member of the Advisory Board for The Women’s Health Fund, explained how decades of excluding women from research created fundamental knowledge gaps. “We’re studying diseases that are disproportionate in women, like Alzheimer’s disease and mental health conditions, diseases that present differently in women, such as heart disease and cancer, and diseases specific to women, such as menopause and preeclampsia.”

Every academic year, Women’s Health Research at Yale’s Undergraduate Fellowship welcomes students to learn more about the field and participate in mentored training opportunities with Yale faculty and staff that focus on sex differences and the health of women. This group joins dozens of Yalies who have successfully completed the program since its start in 2015, the vast majority of whom go on to pursue careers in medicine, public health, and research. Please meet our 2025-26 Fellows!