Medicine@Yale Magazine

Medicine@Yale.

August/September 2005   Volume 1 Issue 2

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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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Out & about

YCC gala photo.
Harold and Suzanne Spear photo. Ralph Greco photo.
YCC gala photo. Arlene and Mel Goldstein photo. The Surgeon as Artist photo.
YCC gala photo.

April 16: LA CASSA MAGICA, the sixth annual Yale Cancer Center (YCC) gala, was held at the Country Club of Fairfield, Conn. The event, chaired by Kathryn Anderson Adams of Greenwich, raised more than $400,000 to support clinical trials at the center. Dr. Richard and Beth Sackler were vice-chairs and Louis Chênevert, Paul Kelly, Nicholas Makes, and Joseph Perella served as corporate chairs. The Honorable Rudolph W. and Judith S. Giuliani were honorary chairs for the evening, which was hosted by CNN anchor and YCC board member Paula Zahn. 1. (From left) Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Rudolph Giuliani, YCC director Richard L. Edelson, M.D. 2. From left: Adams, actress Blythe Danner. 3. Arlene and Mel Goldstein. 4. (From left) Zahn, Carol Crapple, Lucy Day.

Women of Vision Awards photo.

Linda Koch Lorimer photo. Margaret Marshall photo.
Kevin Sullivan photo. William Ginsburg photo.

April 21: WOMEN OF VISION AWARDS were bestowed by Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) on renowned feminist author and activist Gloria Steinem and Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Ph.D., co-founder of Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP) and New Haven’s annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas, at a celebration held at the Omni Hotel. 1. (From left) Steinem, Meyer, Carolyn Mazure, Ph.D., WHRY director. 2. Linda Koch Lorimer, J.D., vice president and secretary of Yale University. 3. Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, J.D., of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 4. Lt. Gov. Kevin B. Sullivan. 5. William W. Ginsburg, CEO, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

The Surgeon as Artist photo.

June 2: THE SURGEON AS ARTIST, an exhibit of artwork by Yale-affiliated surgeons, was placed on display at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library in conjunction with the 10th Annual Spring Reunion of the Yale Surgical Society (YSS). 1. Harold Spear, M.D., and Suzanne Spear. 2. Ralph S. Greco, M.D., with his sculpture “Travertine Torso.” 3. (From left) James M. Dowaliby II, M.D.; A. John Anlyan, M.D.; Greco; Bernard S. Siegel, M.D.; Paul Barcewicz, M.D.; Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D.; Michael K. O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D. 4. Enjoying a snack are Katie and Emily Malison, daughters of Eugenia M. Vining, M.D., clinical instructor in surgery and YSS board member, and Robert T. Malison, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry.

Discovery to Cure gala photo.

Christine and Edward Fleischli photo.
Thomas Rutherford photo.
Discovery to Cure gala photo.

June 11: At the second DISCOVERY TO CURE GALA, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) was a featured speaker. The event, held under a festively decorated tent at Yale’s Branford College, netted $256,000 for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments. In one of the evening’s highlights, it was announced that two new endowments in the names of Debra Levin and Marie Malouf had been established with funds contributed by family and friends. 1. (From left) Rosanne Malouf, gala chair, Levin, Marie Malouf. 2. Gala committee members Christine and Edward Fleischli, D.V.M. 3. Thomas J. Rutherford, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences 4. (From left) Peter E. Schwartz, M.D., John Slade Ely Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Arlene Schwartz, DeLauro, Stanley Greenberg, president of Greenberg-Quinlan Research.

 

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