Research

Yale researchers have introduced countless medical and health advances over the last century, including the first success with antibiotics in the United States and the first use of chemotherapy to treat cancer. University scientists have been responsible for the identification of Lyme disease and the discovery of genes responsible for high blood pressure, osteoporosis, dyslexia, and Tourette’s syndrome, among other disorders. Early work on the artificial heart and the creation of the first insulin pump took place at Yale, as did seminal discoveries about how the cell and its components function at the molecular level. Today, research activities take place in a wide range of departments, programs, and centers.

The School of Medicine has extraordinary strength in the basic sciences and consistently ranks in the top handful of medical school receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health. Yale scientists have made seminal discoveries in the fields of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Comparative Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Genetics, History of Medicine, Immunobiology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Neurobiology and Pharmacology.

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Scientists at Yale Provide Explanation for How Cancer Spreads

Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, who say that this single event can set the stage for cancer’s migration to other parts of the body. more…

Chocolate may be boon to pregnant women, Yale study shows

Women who eat chocolate are at decreased risk of developing preeclampsia, a potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy, a Yale study suggests. more…

Yale’s Frick honored for research on hormones and memory

Karyn Frick, associate professor of behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Yale, has been awarded the third annual Society for Women’s Health Research Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women’s Health for her research on the effect of hormones on learning and memory. more…