A major boost for recruiting top doctors
Greenwich philanthropist calls $10 million gift a “strategic investment”
James M. Allwin, president of Aetos Capital, LLC, an investment management firm based in New York, has donated $10 million to the School of Medicine to attract more of the world’s best clinicians and clinical researchers to Yale.Allwin, a resident of Greenwich, Conn., who serves on the board of the Yale New Haven Health System and on the advisory board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, says that his gift mirrors the philosophy he employs in his business: “It’s my hope that by investing in...
Of moths and mice: jumping genes make big leap to mammals
The Human Genome Project succeeded at the monumental task of assembling a complete parts list for the human body by...
Program aims to close the gender gap in medical research
Until the National Institutes of Health (NIH), America’s largest funder of biomedical research, required scientists to...
Yale and Donaghue partnership treats research advances as a practical matter
Like pathbreaking creator, foundation ventures into uncharted research territory
New emergency chief aims to shorten patients’ stays—and stop visits altogether
Diabetes expert is named dean of nursing
Margaret Grey, Dr.P.H., R.N., the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing and associate dean for scholarly affairs at the...
Borgstrom named president/CEO of Yale-New Haven
Since she joined Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) in 1979 as an administrative fellow just out of graduate school, Marna...
Neuroscientist Horvath will chair Comparative Medicine
Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, and...
Advances
When it comes to taste, the nose knows
Anyone whose enjoyment of food has been blunted by a bad cold knows that a good part of taste...
Read more...A stubborn inequity in heart treatments
Illness is a great leveler, but social and economic factors have profound effects on health, in...
Read more...Cellular power plants help explain diabetes
Every cell in our bodies contains bacteria-sized powerhouses called mitochondria (seen as ovals in...
Read more...It’s never a good thing to have an aortic aneurysm, a weakness in the walls of the body’s largest...
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From left: Danielle Bachinski, Honey Carter, Roxanne Young-Perry, Keri Spears, mother of Timber Spears, and Lake Spears Jr., brother of Timber Spears. 
From left: Steve and Meg Stanton with Mitch McManus, owner of BMW Bridgeport and event sponsor. 
Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., chair of Special Olympics (left), meets Edmund W. Gordon, Ed.D., John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale. 
ribal Council Chairman Michael Thomas (left) with Ensign Professor of Medicine and Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., after the unveiling. 
From left: Drs.Michael and Elizabeth Brennan with Suzie Manegia. 
From left: U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT), U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), former Bush Center Senior Fellow and U.S. Rep. John B. Larson (D-CT). 
From left: Samuel D. Kushlan, M.D. ’35, Ethel Kushlan, and Paula Del Guercio. 
From left: David J. Leffell, M.D., professor of dermatology and surgery and deputy dean for clinical affairs, speaks with Maureen and Harold D. Bornstein Jr., M.D. ’53. 
Keri Spears tours the research area. 
John Ragland Jr. and John Ragland Sr. 
John DeStefano Jr., mayor of New Haven. 
Marie-Louise T. Johnson, Ph.D. ’54, M.D. ’56. 
From left: Professor of Pediatrics and YCHRC Director Scott A. Rivkees, M.D., speaks with Joey Carter and Crystal Whipple. 
From left: Dr. Mel and Linda Coolidge, Richard L. Edelson, M.D., director of the Yale Cancer Center, and Karin Keith. 
Zigler (left) and Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Child Study Center and director of the newly named center. 
Maria Kayne and Martin Gordon, M.D. ’46.
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