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Yale School of Medicine, in collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital, has joined the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network, which supports clinical research to improve the health of mothers and infants.
A photo display at the state capitol building in Hartford in February paidtribute to scientific advances taking place at the School of Medicine.
Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, has been named the inaugural director of the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH). Omer is currently the William H. Foege Professor of Global Health, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics at Emory University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
An outstanding question in dermatology that researchers have studied for decades is: How do hair follicles emerge from a sea of seemingly uniform skin cells during embryonic development? New research findings from a Yale-led team offer answers to that question, which may lead to strategies for regenerating lost hair follicles in adults.
Robert J. Alpern, MD, dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, has informed the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) community that he will not seek to serve a fourth five-year term as dean when his current term expires in 2019.
The new Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH), approved by the Yale Corporation on Dec. 8, further advances President Salovey’s goal for the university to have a greater impact on complex international issues. Led by the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, YIGH is a university-wide effort to address global health issues.
YCCI’s renewed CTSA grant award allows Yale to continue its leadership in cutting-edge areas of research. One such novel initiative under the grant renewal is Diseases Across the Lifespan, which will explore the rising field of lifespan research — a new approach to examining the ways in which diseases that commonly strike adults have their roots in infancy and early childhood.
By combining the use of drug-carrying nanoparticles with an organ-preserving machine, Yale researchers have developed a procedure that could help improve long-term outcomes for transplant recipients.
The New Haven MOMS Partnership has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation to support its work.
Hilary P. Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).
Test drive: An innovative lab at Yale aims to reduce car crashes.
Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, was honored with a research award October 6 by the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.
Yale researchers will study the development of functional brain connectivity during late pregnancy to early adolescence thanks to a five-year, $12.4 million grant from Autism Centers of Excellence Program, part of efforts by the National Institutes of Health to understand the origins of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Yale University’s Minding the Baby® (MTB) National Office was awarded an 18-month grant from the Grossman Family Foundation beginning in January 2017 to expand the MTB home visiting intervention in Connecticut.
Scientists can now explore in a laboratory dish how the human brain develops by creating organoids — distinct, three-dimensional regions of the brain. In research published in Cell Stem Cell, Yale scientists coaxed early stage stem cells to create and fuse two types of organoids from different brain regions to show how the developing brain maintains proper balance of excitatory and inhibitory neurons.
A case report written by a team of Yale researchers describing ketamine treatment for adolescent depression is featured in April’s Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The first author was Jennifer B. Dwyer, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow in the Solnit Integrated Training Program.
The CD-CP program, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, provides immediate help when children are exposed to traumatic experiences, especially violence.
Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, and Judah Weathers, MD, DPhil, residents in the Solnit Integrated Training Program, have received Pilot Research Awards to support separate research projects.
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI) joined the Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) beginning on July 1st, 2016. This merger comes after YCEI received numerous grants to expand RULER, its evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that serves over a million students in over 1000 K-12 schools.
Yale Medical Group, the clinical practice of the Yale School of Medicine and the largest academic multi-specialty practice in New England, has been advancing medicine for more than 200 years. But now it has a new name: Yale Medicine.