
Scientists honored for research unveiling molecular machines
The month of May brought the good news that two School of Medicine scientists, each of whom have done pathbreaking work on molecular machines involved in human disease, had received high honors for their research. On May 1 Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., chair and Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and professor of cell biology, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the most prestigious honors in science. On the 29th, Arthur L. Horwich, M.D.,
Student research on heart surgery gets a boost from new endowment

In the 1960s, when cardiac surgery was still a young field, Horace C. Stansel Jr., M.D., was already making his mark at Yale as a skillful, innovative pediatric heart surgeon. A member of the School of Medicine faculty until his death in 1994, Stansel built a reputation as a consummate physician, researcher, and educator, and was a mentor to generations of medical students and residents.Known as “Stan” to friends and colleagues, Stansel trained with Ormand C. Julian, M.D., at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and...
The medical school’s ‘hidden treasure’
General Internal Medicine at Yale is a flourishing research powerhouse with a diverse portfolio of projects

Turning on immunity to shut off cancer
When Lieping Chen, M.D., Ph.D., was training to be an oncologist in the 1980s, the lack of effective cancer treatments...
The research advances emanating from Yale’s Section of General Internal Medicine (GIM) require constant and consistent...
Neuroscientist is focused on the brain bases of tobacco dependence