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Yale School of Medicine's Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce the creation of the Endowed Catalyst Fund in Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology. The fund will be used to support innovation in research and clinical care in the Department of Internal Medicine Section of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology.
This $25 million commitment from one of the nation’s largest private foundations, chaired by Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, is a significant step toward making Yale’s premier MD program more affordable for students with financial need.
A hallmark of successful modern academic institutions is an ability to integrate students, faculty, and alumni within the corporate architecture of local businesses. MIT is known for its ties to General Dynamics and Stanford has attracted many undergraduates hoping to go into business for..
Toward the end of January, face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) donated by people at Yale started leaving for Hunan, China. In the midst of its coronavirus outbreak, the country was in need.
David R. Kessler, MD ’55, is directing $5 million from his estate to Yale School of Public Health to create an endowed professorship to support teaching and research on improving LGBTQ mental health.
Shortly after Walter Newberry Kernan, MD, professor of medicine (general medicine) joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1989, he became Liesa Bing Allen’s primary care physician. Their doctor-patient relationship would last nearly three decades until her death on July 19, 2017, six days shy..
The School of Medicine announced that it is reducing the unit loan—the amount that medical students who receive need-based scholarships are expected to borrow—from $23,000 to $15,000 per year for all students attending in the 2019-2020 academic year and thereafter. Together with the unit loan reduction that went into effect for the current academic year —from $30,000 to $23,000—this is a reduction of 50 percent in two years. This means that more of a student's demonstrated need will be covered by scholarship funds, and less by loans.
Christine N. Moog, MFA ’03, and her husband Benoit Helluy have experienced cancer’s devastation firsthand.
Rates of cancer are higher in the city of New Haven than for the state of Connecticut overall, according to Beth Anne Jones, PhD, MPH, research scientist at Yale School of Public Health and director of the Smilow Screening & Prevention Program. But many New Haven residents face obstacles to..
Luye Life Sciences Group, a Chinese medical conglomerate, has given the Yale Stem Cell Center (YSCC) $1 million in support of basic stem cell research. The gift “will allow my lab to explore cutting-edge questions that are high-risk and unlikely to be funded by mainstream funding mechanisms,”..
The lungs are made up of some 30 to 40 different types of cells. “When you get sick, these cells can change.
David W. Wallace, a former corporate attorney, businessman, and philanthropist who was a longtime supporter of the School of Medicine and Yale University, died at home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Dec.
For a quarter century, Ginny Grunley, her husband Ken Grunley, president and chief executive officer of Grunley Construction, Inc. , and their family have been enthusiastic philanthropists.
With a goal of spurring new discoveries in neuroscience by bright young investigators, and supporting the work of the next generation of leaders in the field, Reynold Spector, M. D.
Lynn E. Fiellin, M.
The partnership between Mary Lake Polan, M. D.
Thirty years ago, a person with metastatic melanoma had a 5 to 10 percent chance of long-term survival. Today, estimates of five-year survival range from 40 to 50 percent.
Jon Sokoloff lost his mother to melanoma 15 years ago. Since then, he and his wife Sheryl have sought to do everything they can to support research into more effective treatments.
The wait for advances in cancer research to translate into clinical treatment can be an ordeal for patients and their loved ones, whose sense of passing time is heightened by the presence of the disease. This feeling of urgency led to the launch in 2016 of the Yale Cancer Center Discovery Fund,..
A $1 million gift from the Howard and Maryam Newman Family Foundation to Yale School of Medicine will benefit the Yale Spine Center and the Department of Neurosurgery, and support the center’s neurological robotic surgery initiative under the direction of Khalid M. Abbed, M.