The tiniest scale yields the biggest prize
Nobel Prize is awarded for atomic-level studies of cell structure basic to life
A telephone ringing before daybreak is unlikely to appear on anyone’s list of favorite sounds, but for Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., it may now rank with the sweetest music.In the early morning hours of October 7, Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, learned in a call from Sweden that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his seminal research on the structure of the ribosome, a cell organelle that is vital to protein synthesis and to the action of many...
Smilow Cancer Hospital, a ‘great achievement,’ welcomes patients
Gray skies overhead could not dampen the celebratory mood on the grounds of Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) on the...
Brothers follow parents’ example to help fight cancer
It would be an understatement to say that philanthropy runs in the family of Richard S. Sackler, M.D., and his brother,...
Yale mourns loss of a bright young light
An idealistic and dedicated woman, graduate student Annie Le planned to devote her life to medical research
Clinical research: the next generation
In 2006, former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., launched the Clinical and...
Almost a century ago, John W. Sterling, of the Yale College Class of 1864 (right), ably demonstrated the ability of one...
A busy, award-winning clinician finds her way back to the music she loves
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