Director named to lead new stem cell center
Haifan Lin, PhD, one of the country's leading stem cell biologists, was
named director of the new Yale Stem Cell Program in August. Lin will oversee
six scientists who will explore fundamental aspects of stem cell biology,
including the properties and mechanisms of human embryonic stem cells, human
adult stem cells, and stem cells in model organisms such as mouse, fruit fly,
and nematode. Lin comes to Yale from Duke University, where he was cofounder
and codirector of the Duke Stem Cell Research Program. Diane Krause, MD, PhD,
associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology and an expert in adult
stem cells, will be the program's associate director. Over the next few years
the center will recruit four more faculty members as well as administrative and
technical staff. Three core facilities are planned: a human embryonic stem cell
culture core laboratory, a cell sorting core, and a confocal microscopy core.
NIH funds Yale's magnetic resonance system
A $2 million High-End Instrumentation grant from the National Center
for Research Resources (NCRR) will fund Yale's purchase of a 7-Tesla human magnetic
resonance (MR) system that will facilitate ultra-high-resolution studies
of diabetes, epilepsy, psychiatric disease, and learning disorders. Under this
program, the NCRR makes one-time awards to support the purchase of
sophisticated instruments costing more than $750,000 to advance biomedical
research and increase knowledge of the underlying causes of human disease.
"The new 7T system will provide Yale scientists with the capability of
imaging biochemistry and functional activity of the brain and limbs at
unprecedented levels of spatial resolution," said Douglas L. Rothman, PhD,
professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering. "The research
will be unique among ultra-high-field MR systems in its focus on
developing and applying MR biochemical imaging for the understanding,
diagnosis, and treatment of disease."
The MR system will be a shared resource for several investigators who
are funded by the National Institutes of Health. Yale has recruited two new
faculty members to develop new methods of biochemical image-guided neurosurgery
using the system.
New director for Child Study Center
Fred R. Volkmar, MD, a longtime faculty member and world leader in the
field of autism, was named director of the Child Study Center and chief of
child psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital for a three-year term
effective July 1. Volkmar, the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry,
Pediatrics, and Psychology, came to Yale as a fellow in 1980 and joined the
medical school faculty two years later. He succeeds Alan Kazdin, who had served
as director since 2002.
Ophthalmologist hopes to expand department's reputation
James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, was named chair of the Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Science and chief of ophthalmology at Yale-New
Haven Hospital, effective October 1. Tsai, who was associate professor of
ophthalmology and director of the glaucoma division at the Edward S. Harkness
Eye Institute at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
succeeds M. Bruce Shields, MD, who had served as chair since 1996. Tsai's goal
for the department is to make it an internationally recognized leader in
patient care, vision research, and medical education.
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