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    Yale’s picks to beat cancer: a pair of aces

    Yale’s picks to beat cancer: a pair of aces

    An illustrious new chief of medical oncology, a leader for the Yale Cancer Biology Institute boost efforts to develop better drugs for cancer

    It has been an eventful December for the advancement of basic and translational cancer research at Yale. On the 13th, Yale University announced that Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D., a world-renowned scientist with an unparalleled track record of identifying molecular targets for novel anticancer drugs, was named the first director of the University’s new Cancer Biology Institute (CBI), one of five major interdisciplinary research initiatives located on Yale’s West Campus. Just a week before, Thomas

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    Alumna supports doctors who join her on a road less traveled

    Alumna supports doctors who join her on a road less traveled

    Medicine offers satisfying careers in both science and patient care, and at the School of Medicine, students and...

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    Built from scratch, lungs are a big leap in bioengineering

    Built from scratch, lungs are a big leap in bioengineering

    Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., has spent the past 15 years in the lab developing ways to build new arteries using tissue...

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    Medical school’s mentors ‘pay it forward’

    Medical school’s mentors ‘pay it forward’

    Seasoned pros are vital in preparing students to succeed on their own

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    Tiny scope is a big advance for GI cancers

    Tiny scope is a big advance for GI cancers

    Last year, when Harry Aslanian, M.D., associate professor of medicine, first looked at images produced by a new...

    Annual auction nets more than $25,000 for New Haven charities

    Annual auction nets more than $25,000 for New Haven charities

    The annual student-run Hunger and Homelessness Auction, held on November 18, garnered more than $25,000 for New Haven...

    Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine

    FederalSteven L. Bernstein, NIH, Treating Low-Income Smokers in the Hospital Emergency Department, 5 years,...

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    Putting eggs in a new basket

    Putting eggs in a new basket

    Science for its own sake can also hatch payoffs, says a Yale geneticist

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    Associate dean wins top honor in medical education

    Associate dean wins top honor in medical education

    Yale cell biologist is honored with two awards

    Yale cell biologist is honored with two awards

    Neurologist is named first Zimmerman and Spinelli Professor

    Neurologist is named first Zimmerman and Spinelli Professor

    Expert on genetics of psychiatric disorders is appointed Foundations’ Fund Professor

    Expert on genetics of psychiatric disorders is appointed Foundations’ Fund Professor

    Neuropsychiatrist, stem cell researcher is new Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry

    Neuropsychiatrist, stem cell researcher is new Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry

    Development and function of the retina are research interests of Marvin Sears Professor

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    It all adds up: diabetes and oxidative stress

    We need oxygen, but it comes with a catch. Aerobic metabolism produces reactive oxygen species...

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    How the brain may find a way around autism

    Research at the medical school’s Child Study Center (CSC) has shown that autism spectrum disorder...

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    Stomach acid zapped by a single dose of zinc

    Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD, or “heartburn”) and related diseases caused by excess...

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    Connections that stick: SynCAM 1 and synapses

    Synapses, the junctions where signals pass between nerve cells, are crucial to thought and...

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    Out & About

    • September 30Faculty and staff of the School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center joined employees of Tucker Mechanical, of Meriden, Conn. (an EMCOR Company) to form a Human Pink Ribbon in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. More than 160 people participated in the event.
    • October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

      New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. made remarks on the steps of Sterling Hall of Medicine.

    • October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

      Linda Pellico, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing (right), led an educational session for children.

    • October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

      John Gallagher, M.L.S., deputy director of public services at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, led a tour of the new Cushing Center, which houses brain specimens, photographs, drawings, and memorabilia collected by famed neurosurgeon and Yale College alumnus Harvey W. Cushing, M.D.

    • October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

      News analyst and political commentator Cokie Robertsdelivered the evening’s keynote speech.

    • October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

      (Seated, from left) Discovery to Cure committee members Michelle Mills, Gladys O’Neil, Stephanie Ercegovic, Arlene Schwartz, and Judi Egbert. Top: Gil Mor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and creator of the Discovery to Cure program; Peter E. Schwartz, M.D., the John Slade Ely Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Thomas J. Rutherford, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences; Jacques Dickinson, and Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keeffe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences.

    • October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

      (From left) Melissa Sheehan,William B. Sheehan, Discovery to Cure committee member Wendy Long, and James Long.

    • October 28The Branford, Conn.-based Jack of All Hearts Foundation(JOAH) made a gift of $3,000 to support pediatric cardiology programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the School of Medicine. Laura and Mark Hanson, whose son, Jack, was born with a rare congenital heart defect, cofounded the organization. In September, the first JOAH Walkathon netted $10,500. (From left) Clifford W. Bogue, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics; Mark Hanson; Laura Hanson; Alan H. Friedman, M.D., professor of pediatrics; and JOAH board member Melissa Thibeault.

    • November 4A reception was held in the Medical Historical Library honoring John A. Persing, M.D., professor of surgery and neurosurgery, recently named the inaugural Irving and Silik Polayes Professor in Plastic Surgery. The new professorship was established with a $2.5 million gift from the late Maurice B. “Moe” Polayes, and is named in honor of his brother, Irving M. Polayes, M.D., and his late great-uncle, Silik H. Polayes, Ph.D. Irving is a retired New Haven surgeon and dentist who was a voluntary faculty member in the Department of Surgery’s Section of Plastic Surgery from 1965 to 1997. Silik earned his graduate degree from Yale in 1921 and worked as a pathologist in New York. From left: Persing with Maurice Polayes’s children, Amy Polayes Margolisand Roy Polayes.

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