Christakis, Mayer elected to National Academy of Sciences
Nicholas Christakis and James Mayer were elected to the academy, one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Nicholas Christakis and James Mayer were elected to the academy, one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Yale researchers have developed a novel approach to synthesize a highly complex group of molecules found in marine invertebrates.
At a recent “pop-up” exhibit, Yale physics students took a closer look at more than a dozen trailblazing tomes by Galileo, Newton, Kepler, and others.
Jon Ellman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology in the Yale Faulty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) was one of 14 Yale faculty members awarded with a Yale Faculty Innovation Award earlier this month. The event was held at Yale Ventures and recognizes the exceptional contributions of faculty investigators whose inventions were licensed to startup companies and funded during fiscal year 2023. Attendees included FAS Dean Tamar Gendler, President Peter Salovey, Provost Scott Strobel, Deans of various colleges, and other university officials.
Tamar Gendler and Jon Ellman
Ellman’s contribution was with Onsero, a biopharmaceutical startup company, licensed compounds with unique pharmacological activity developed by Dr. Jon Ellman and his colleagues. Ellman’s innovative work, published in Nature, fills a void in mental health treatment: it enables the development of meaningful drugs or neuropsychiatric indications. Onsero is using this technology to develop a new class of medicines to treat complex mental illness.
Ellman, Onsero, and collaborators from UNC-Chapel Hill and UCSF, have developed a drug discovery engine focused on the neurobiology of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, which is implicated in depression and other mood disorders that affect more than 21 million American adults and 3.7 million youth each year. This fiscal year, Onsero received an impressive round of funding to support this important work.
Scott Miller was honored for contributions to the discovery of chemical transformations that lead to the rapid synthesis of stereochemically complex structures.
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle.
Raskin is a leading geometric representation theorist who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Mathematics on July 1.
Jorgensen, a pioneering computational chemist, is the first Yale faculty member to win the Cope Award since 1988.
When researchers in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences follow their curiosity, it can take them down unexplored pathways.
Six FAS faculty members who have made important contributions across a range of fields, including economics, physics, mathematics, African American studies, and linguistics, are among the nearly 270 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.