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Transatlantic Research and Healthcare Alliance Announced Between Yale University, UCL and Yale-New Haven Hospital

Recognizing their shared aspirations for the advancement of biomedical research and healthcare for people around the world, Yale University, Yale-New Haven Hospital and UCL (University College London) and its associated hospitals will sign an agreement that makes them allies in a global effort to improve the human condition through translational medicine. The Yale-UCL alliance will provide opportunities for high-level scientific research, clinical and educational collaboration. more…

Yale's Thomas Steitz Shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Described Structure and Function of Life’s Protein-Making Factory

Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work describing the structure and function of the ribosome, the protein making factory key to the function of all life, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today. more…

Yale Aging Expert and Evolutionary Biologist Receive “Genius” Grants

Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced. Mary Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will each receive a five-year, $500,000 “genius” grant to spend as they see fit. more…

Yale Panelists Discuss the National Effort To Reform Healthcare

Three healthcare experts spent an hour and a half at a Yale School of Medicine panel on Sept. 16 striving to bring clarity to a national reform debate they all agreed has been obscure, frustrating and ultimately unenlightening. more…

Video Game to Help Urban Teens Avoid HIV Infection Focus of Nearly $4 Million Grant To Yale

Creating a video game to help teens avoid sex, drugs and alcohol use—behaviors that could lead to HIV infection—is the aim of a five-year, $3.9 million research grant to Yale from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. more…

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