Inside this issueCover storiesA major boost for recruiting top doctorsOf moths and mice: jumping genes make big leap to mammalsProgram aims to close the gender gap in medical researchPartnershipsYale and Donaghue partnership treats research advances as a practical matterStudents come north and aid flows south as Yale lends a hand in wake of KatrinaBenefit bike ride raises $250,000 for Yale survivors’ clinicGrants & contractsPeopleLifelines: Gail D’Onofrio on saving and changing livesDiabetes expert is named dean of nursingBorgstrom named president/CEO of Yale-New HavenNeuroscientist Horvath will chair Comparative MedicineOut & aboutAwards & honorsScienceAdvances: When it comes to taste, the nose knows | Cellular power plants help explain diabetesHealthLiver transplantation program formed with an international team of expertsDatabase promises early alerts of outbreaksDefusing vascular “time bombs” calls for group effortNew lens implant for cataracts is a bionic-style bifocalAdvances: A stubborn inequity in heart treatments | An upside to aneurysms? |
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Students come north and aid flows south as Yale lends a hand in wake of KatrinaFaculty and staff from all three arms of the School of Medicine—clinical, educational and scientific—quickly mobilized to lend a helping hand to victims of Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. The medical school joined an effort led by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Hospital Association and numerous other organizations to coordinate the care of storm victims, who were transported by the U.S. Department of Defense from the Gulf region to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda and medical centers around the country. With the aid of the AAMC, two displaced students from Tulane University School of Medicine completed third- and fourth-year clinical rotations at Yale, and three others were accepted at the Yale School of Public Health. Several researchers and postdoctoral fellows from affected institutions have relocated their labs at Yale as visiting fellows. The faculty
and staff of the School of Medicine responded energetically to a matching-gift
payroll deduction program established by the officers, deans and fellows
of the Yale Corporation, who collectively pledged to match all relief contributions
up to $1,000 made by Yale faculty, staff and students. At press time, university-wide
donations for assistance to the Gulf States, including matching gifts from
the Corporation, totaled $183,676. 
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October/November 2005 Volume 1 Issue 3
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