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Yale’s Alvaro Sanchez awarded prestigious Packard Fellowship
Congratulations to Alvaro Sanchez, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and member of the Microbial Sciences Institute, who has been awarded a prestigious 2019 Packard Fellowship, one of the largest nongovernmental fellowships in the United States
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In pictures: celebrating chemical biology at Yale
Chemical Biology Retreat 2019: Speakers from across Yale presented on a wide range of discoveries - from the gut microbiome to glucose and oxygen metabolism - and their application to problems in biology and medicine
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Mandar Deepak Muzumdar receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
The assistant professor at the Yale Cancer Biology Institute has been named a recipient of the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. Muzumdar’s lab studies the mechanisms by which genetic and environmental factors contribute to cancer initiation, progression, and maintenance.
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New director named for Yale Microbial Sciences Institute at West Campus
Andrew Goodman has been named to head the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale’s West Campus. The Institute focuses on the inner workings of microbes and their interaction with the environment
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Yale scientists zero in on atomic driver of tumor formation
A collaboration between the Crawford and Herzon labs has led to an important discovery about how the bacterial toxin “Colibactin” causes colorectal cancer. Published today in Science, the findings could remove a barrier towards the development of future treatments
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Scholars gather at Yale to advance systems approach to cancer
In pictures: scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines have come together to fight some of the deadliest forms of cancer with novel approaches, extensive outreach, and through connections with clinical departments
