YSM News and Recognition
Uncovering how kinases communicate and could be causing cancers; revealing potential side effects of the drug gabapentin; and Samuel Ball, PhD, will be the next deputy dean for academic affairs.
News
- May 08, 2024Source: Yale News
In the body, certain enzymes are key to cell communication and their dysfunction can lead to cancer. A new study begins to uncover how they signal and when.
- May 08, 2024
A new study suggests potential side effects of a drug that is commonly used to treat and control partial seizures.
- May 14, 2024
As deputy dean, Samuel Ball, PhD, will oversee the school's faculty lifecycle, including hiring and onboarding, appointments and promotions, professional development, and leave and retirement policies.
- May 13, 2024
Attaining department status will enable Biomedical Informatics & Data Science to build on the momentum it already has achieved, increasing its national profile and positioning YSM to lead AI in medicine.
- May 07, 2024Source: Yale Medicine
Bohdan Pomahac, MD, has performed the most face transplants in the world.
- May 09, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved resmetirom as the first therapy for the more severe form of metabolic-associated steatolic liver disease, but that treatment is costly. Now, a five-year grant will help a Yale researcher determine the feasibility of using oral digoxin, a heart medication, as an alternative.
- May 13, 2024Source: Yale News
A computational model and behavioral study developed by Yale scientists gives a new clue to the age-old question of how our brain prioritizes what to remember.
Recognition
Anderson and Capasso Earn Internal Medicine Service Excellence Award
Amy Anderson, communications officer (left), and Renee Capasso, research assistant, were selected for the Department of Internal Medicine's Service Excellence Award, which was presented on May 7. The annual award honors outstanding staff members whose work and behaviors support and promote the goals, values, and mission of the department.
Antonios Is Cited for Best Basic Science Abstract
Joseph Antonios, MD, PhD, hospital resident, was recognized as having written the best basic science abstract in the vascular section at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).
Farhadian Receives the Forrest Mentorship Award
Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and of epidemiology of microbial diseases, received the John N. Forrest Jr. Mentorship Award at Student Research Day on May 7. Farhadian said, “I feel very lucky to have had my own exceptional research mentors along the way, and I have tried to emulate them when mentoring my own trainees.” Read more about Student Research Day here.
Emergency Medicine Department Will Join NCDMPH
YSM's Department of Emergency Medicine has been awarded a grant to become a participating member in the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) Ecosystem, opening the opportunity for future grants and contracts across a broad array of emergency care and disaster preparedness areas. NCDMPH and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation of the Uniformed Services University lead this ecosystem to support multiple federal agencies and departments.
Espinosa Earns a Minority Hematology Graduate Award
Amos S. Espinosa, a PhD candidate in experimental pathology, was recently named a winner of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Minority Hematology Graduate Award (MHGA). Espinosa is a member of the Krause Lab and a medical research scholar. The MHGA encourages graduate students from communities underserved and underrepresented in hematology in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology. Espinosa's doctoral research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer development.
Jastreboff Addresses NAM Emerging Leaders Forum
In April, Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD (second from right), associate professor of medicine (endocrinology) and director of the Yale Obesity Research Center (Y-Weight), was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders Forum.
PHM Honors Students for Their Writing and Artwork
The Program for Humanities in Medicine (PHM) recognized winners of its Health Professions Students' Creative Writing & Art Contest on May 2. Nearly 100 students participated with poetry, prose, and visual arts creations. Read about the event, and see the list of winners, here.
Reinke and Rogers Are ELAM Fellows
The ELAM Program (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) based at Drexel University has named Valerie Reinke, PhD, chair and Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Genetics (left), and Faye Rogers, PhD, associate professor of therapeutic radiology, as ELAM fellows. ELAM refers to itself as "the only national, longitudinal leadership program for women in academic health care."