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Immunology comes of age at medical school

From Medicine@Yale: The top-ranked and influential Section of Immunobiology becomes a full-fledged department within the Yale School of Medicine. The newly christened Department of Immunobiology was named the best in its field in the United States in a Chronicle of Higher Education survey published in January. In 2006, department members had over $18,000,000 in combined federal and non-federal research funding; between 1999 and 2006 the faculty collectively published more than 70 scientific articles in the top science journals Science, Nature and Cell. more…

Yale Physician Receives Burroughs Award for Translational Research

Yale School of Medicine researcher Warren Shlomchik, M.D., who studies immune system responses in stem cell transplantation, is recipient of a Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). more…

Ancient Cellular Pathway Important in Fighting Viruses

Autophagy, or self-cannabalism, plays a major role in the body’s antiviral immune response, according to a report in Science by Yale School of Medicine researchers, including Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. and Heung Kyu Lee of the Department of Immunobiology. more…

A letter from Dean Alpern: The New Department of Immunobiology

I am pleased to report that the Section of Immunobiology, which was established at the medical school as a small, independent academic unit in 1988, has been elevated to full departmental status by a recent decision of the Yale Corporation. more…