Medicine@Yale Magazine

Medicine@Yale.

August/September 2005   Volume 1 Issue 2

Inside this issue

Cover stories

YALE PROJECTS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH RECEIVE MAJOR FUNDING

Mouse breakthrough will speed vaccines

Finding new perfumes to foil a femme fatale

A new front in the war on antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New look at how resistant bugs dodge drugs

From the pages of Cell to The Tonight Show’s stage

Using laser light, team guides flies by remote control

Applera Corp. boosts education

Fund will honor mentor, aid students

Partnerships

A quest to detect earliest signs of autism

Yale visit brings hope to paralyzed veterans

Grants and contracts

People

Lifelines: Arthur Horwich, seeking what’s never been seen.

New president of alumni body sees a bright future ahead

Out & about

Awards & honors

Science

Connecticut’s $100 million stem cell program good news for Yale

Advances: Taking a toll on parasitic infections | New kidney discovery may help heart | A chink in malignant melanoma’s armor?

Health

Ovarian cancer test exposes quiet killer

From humble start at Yale, REMEDY thrives

Advances: Patient to surgeon: I hear a symphony

Education

Student explorations in the world of research

Notable teachers receive high honors at Commencement

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About Medicine@Yale

Medicine@Yale is a bimonthly publication that covers the accomplishments that make the Yale School of Medicine one of the world’s great biomedical institutions. We report on the school’s mission to provide outstanding education for its students; to advance the frontiers of science; and to serve the medical, public health and educational needs of the residents of Connecticut, the Northeast and the world over.

Medicine@Yale
Peter Farley, Managing Editor

Contributors
Lakshmi Bangalore, Douglas Barnes, John Curtis, John Dillon, Michael Fitzsousa, Renee Gaudette, Andrea Gendrachi, Maureen Grieco, Jane Hadjimichael, Lauragene Lyons, Jill Max, Pat McCaffrey, Christopher Pates, Cathy Shufro, Marc Wortman

Photographs and Illustrations
Aaron Berger, Isabel Chenoweth, John Curtis, Terry Dagradi, Jerry Domian, Hannah Fairfield, Peter Moore, Rockefeller Archive Center, Harold Shapiro, Hugh Sturrock/The Wellcome Trust, Elaine Ubina, Paul Webster/House Ear Institute, S. Mark Williams, Sandra Wolin

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Tom Strong, Amanda Damour/Strong Cohen

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Web Design & Development, Patrick Lynch

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Administration
Yale School of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine
Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Dean

Ensign Professor of Medicine

Martha E. Schall
Associate Vice President for Development
and Director of Medical Development

Mary Hu
Director of Planning and Communications

Michael Fitzsousa
Director of Publications

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