Center will study rare genetic diseases
$11 million grant makes Yale home to one of three national centers tasked with unraveling the genetic causes of rare inherited diseases
For complex diseases like cancer and diabetes, there’s no crystal ball that can tell you for sure whether you’ll develop the illness during your lifetime. A tangled interplay between your environment, your behaviors, and the genes you inherited from your parents determines your risk of such diseases. But for some disorders—dubbed Mendelian—a mutation in a single gene is the direct and clear-cut cause of disease. And the inheritance patterns of Mendelian disorders are also straightforward, but...
Gift brings personalized cancer therapy a step closer to reality
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Now a department, urology recruits its inaugural leader
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November 15, 2011 David Leof, M.D. ’64 (left), and his wife Colleen Leof (right) visited the medical school to mark the awarding of the first Dr. David and Colleen Leof Scholarship to Isha Marina di Bartolo ’15. The fund was established in 2011 to provide support for Yale medical students with distinction in the humanities or arts. Colleen Leof, an artist, will present each Leof Scholar with a sculpture honoring that student’s selection.
Wade Brubacher, professional auctioneer from Kansas and father of Jake Brubacher ’10, returned to the School of Medicine by popular demand to conduct the proceedings.
(Foreground, left to right) Ferrin Ruiz ’13, Joel Beckett ’13, and Kristina Liu ’13 take part in the bidding.
November 17, 2011 The 19th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction, sponsored by Yale students in the health professions, raised more than $30,000 to benefit New Haven charities. Richard Belitsky, M.D., Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education, deputy dean for education, and associate professor of psychiatry; and Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D., M.Ed., associate professor of medicine and associate dean for student affairs, peruse the auction program.
December 7, 2011 In the Pop to Stop Addison’s campaign, Emma Florian, Adam Florian, and Benjamin Florian raised $900 by selling homemade necklaces made from pop-tops to increase awareness of Addison’s disease in memory of their brother Joshua. The family presented a check to Susan D. Boulware, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, at her clinic in Guilford, Conn. (From left) Boulware, Emma, Adam, Benjamin, and their mother, Eliza Florian.
December 5, 2011 At the 4th Annual Andrews Lecture, sponsored by the Donaghue Foundation and titled “A Caregiver’s Journey,” Lee Woodruff spoke about her family’s experience caring for her husband, ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff, who suffered a traumatic brain injury while traveling with the U.S. military in Iraq in 2006.
November 28, 2011 To mark World AIDS Day, Yale medical students and faculty brought Stephen Lewis, co-founder and co-director of international advocacy organization AIDS-Free World, to campus to deliver a talk called “AIDS at 30” as part of the Global Health Seminar, an inter-professional course organized by the schools of medicine, nursing, and public health.
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