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Veronica Chiang, MD, professor of neurosurgery, is currently leading several clinical trials seeking to improve treatments for brain metastases, or cancers that has spread to the brain). She recently sat down for an interview about this important work.

A Yale spinout developed a new drug for treatment-resistant glioblastomas that could reach patients as soon as next year.

Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, MSc, PhD, an assistant professor in the Departments of Therapeutic Radiology, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Medicine, has been awarded the 2025 Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Transformational Award.

On November 17, 2025, in honor of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, members of our Center for Thoracic Cancers at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center presented a patient forum: "Progress and Hope: Sharing the Latest Advances in Lung Cancer Care." The event was held in person at 55 Park Street in New Haven, CT.

Earlier this month, a major milestone was reached in the opening of the Connecticut Proton Therapy Center in Wallingford, CT. A joint effort between Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Hartford HealthCare (HHC), the Center is scheduled to open later next year.

Yale researchers have completed a challenging synthesis of a molecule that may have potent anti-cancer effects.

Dr. Roy Herbst shares the progress that has been made in lung cancer care and research at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center.

On November 10, 2025, Dr. Pamela Kunz hosted a Smilow Shares in honor of NETS Awareness Day.

Video interview in the lab of Ranjit S. Bindra, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine and co-director of the Yale Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital.