Inside this issueCover storiesPassing the torchAcquisition of Bayer site will accelerate biomedical researchInternational effort rewrites the book on the human genomePartnershipsFoundation supports Yale research “of practical benefit”Grants & contractsPeopleLifelines: Lawrence CohenYale scientist is new president of Wellesley CollegeTop heart surgeon is named Glenn ProfessorDiabetes experts win top scientific honorsObstetrics/gynecology chair is honored as leader and writerOut & aboutAwards & honorsScienceFinding a new chink in cancer's armorResearch center aims to make rickets historyBrewing a new treatment for kidney diseaseAdvances: Putting a squeeze on Lyme disease | These mice like to spend time chilling | Hearing voices: A brain out of sync? | Stem cells show promise in Parkinson's  
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April 21: The 8th annual LA CASSA MAGICA, a black-tie gala to benefit Yale Cancer Center (YCC), was held at The Belle Haven Club in Greenwich, Conn. The event raised over $400,000 to support the creation of a clinical-trials unit within the new Yale-New Haven Cancer Hospital, which is now under construction. Kathryn Anderson Adams of Greenwich chaired the event. Debbie and Louis Chênevert were vice chairs for the evening, which was hosted by CNN television news anchor and Yale Cancer Center YCC board member Paula Zahn. Corporate chairs for La Cassa Magica included George E. Crapple, Paul K. Kelly, Nicholas T. Makes, Joseph R. Perella, Hal Parmelee, and Richard S. Sackler, M.D. Adams and Zahn were honored for their continued support for YCC with plaques that will be displayed in the new Cancer Hospital. 1. (From left) Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine and YCC deputy director; Debbie and Louis Chênevert. 2. Duke Brodsky, Erica Feingold, Howard Brodsky, John Moccia. 3. (From left) Jeff and Karin Keith with Sean and Duffy Kilbride. 4. Lucy Day, Carol Crapple and Margie Warwick. 5. (From left) Zahn; Richard L. Edelson, M.D., professor of dermatology and YCC director; and Adams.
April 29: In the ANNUAL FACULTY-STUDENT SOFTBALL GAME, the faculty team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., “Bob’s Bulldogs,” jumped out to an early lead, thanks to (says a highly-placed faculty source) fine fielding, daring base running, and a tremendous home run by Dennis L. Cooper, M.D., professor of medicine. The lead eventually built up to 10-3, and the faculty may have gotten a bit complacent. In the 7th inning, the students staged a spirited comeback, but their efforts fell short. The final score was 10-9 in favor of the faculty, in the closest, best-played and most injury-free game in the legendary three-year rivalry between Alpern’s heroic team and Class of 2008 Captain Misaki Kiguchi’s youthful challengers. The Dean donates chances to join the game to bidders at the students’ annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction. (Front row, from left): David L. Rimm, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology; Peter M. Glazer, M.D., Ph.D., Robert E. Hunter Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Sam Glazer; Alpern; Cooper; Diane Kowalski, M.D., assistant professor of pathology and surgery; James S. Duncan, Ph.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering; Maritza Martel, M.D., assistant professor of pathology; and Richard A. Silverman, director of admissions. (Back row, from left): Kelvin C. Lau ’08; Gabriel A. Widi ’08; Saif S. Rathore ’10; Indy M. Wilkinson, ’08; Scott T.O. Kennedy ’08; Maulik P. Shah ’08; Karl R. Laskowski ’08; Kiguchi; Reid Sansone; Susan A. Sansone, registrar, M.D./Ph.D. Program; Mark H.J. McRae ’08; and Matthew C. McRae ’09.
May 5: THE SCIENCE OF AUTISM AT YALE brought scientists and clinicians from the medical school’s Child Study Center (CSC) to the Yale Club of New York City to present the latest research findings and treatment options for autism. The event also celebrated the naming of the CSC as an Autism Center of Excellence by the National Institutes of Health, a highly competitive and prestigious designation that includes $7.5 million in direct research funding for the research program headed by autism expert Ami J. Klin, Ph.D., Irving B. Harris Associate Professor in the Child Study Center. 1. (From left) Klin with Matthew W. State, M.D., Ph.D., Irving B. Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and associate professor of genetics; CSC Director Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology; and Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D., associate professor in the CSC and associate professor of diagnostic radiology. 2. Debbie Hilibrand, chair of the Executive Council of the Child Study Center Associates, and Barbara de Kwiatkowski. 3. (From left) Judy Higgins with William and Barbara Epifanio. 4. Wendy Pillsbury and Christopher Eichmann. 5. Jesse Mojica and Josh Needelman.
May 28: At GRADUATION FOR THE CLASS OF 2007, Karen S. Morris-Priester, M.D., spoke to a reporter from New Haven’s WTNH News Channel 8. Morris entered the School of Medicine as a 40-year-old grandmother and mother of five in 2002. The week before graduation, Morris-Priester’s teachers had lured her to a classroom for “an important graduation meeting.” Instead, Oprah Winfrey appeared on a video screen to tell Morris-Priester and her assembled classmates that she would be honored for her achievements on the “Cheers to You!” segment of the Oprah Winfrey Show. “Oprah was saying my name!” said the shocked Morris-Priester as her fellow students cheered. “You don’t expect Oprah to be talking about you!” During her appearance on the program, Morris-Priester learned that AMBI Skincare, a Johnson & Johnson company, will pay her medical school debt, and that Johnson & Johnson is establishing a scholarship in her honor to increase the number of minority women in the sciences. Morris-Priester has begun an internship at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., to be followed by an anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  |
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