November/December Volume 5 Issue 5

Inside this issue

Cover stories

The tiniest scale yields the biggest prize

Smilow Cancer Hospital, a 'great achievement,' welcomes patients

Brothers follow parents' example to help fight cancer

People

Lifelines: Lynn Tanoue

Expert on severe mental illness is new director of mental health center

Advocate for women's health research is honored

Expert on visual development is first Ziegler Professor

Neurology chair, MS researcher named Gilbert Glaser Professor

Nixdorff-German Professor is neurosurgeon and scientist

Harris Professor probes development of social cognition in autism

Out & about

Science

Advances: Images help scientists think outside the box | Giving a gut punch to Parkinson's disease | Neurons shouldn't always stick together | Can an old antibody learn a new trick?

Education

Clinical research: the next generation

In Memoriam

School of Medicine remembers a student of 'joy and warmth'

Yale mourns loss of a bright young light

Partnerships

Grants & contracts

Supporting medical education

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