Andrew Dervan
Andrew Dervan
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Pfizer may partner with Yale
Drug company to announce plans with Yale, New Haven for new clinical trial center
Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, is close to announcing plans for construction of a new inpatient clinical trial center in conjunction with Yale University and the city of New Haven, a company spokesman said. The proposed center would be used...
Yale research team offers SIDS explanation
A Yale School of Medicine research team may have found an answer to why one out of every 1,000 babies in the industrial world dies from sudden infant death syndrome. The team, which included senior investigator Dr. George Richerson, associate professor...
Biomedical Engineering gets NIH grant
Program secures largest award in its history, $7.1 million, for study of seizures
Yale's Biomedical Engineering Program will receive a $7.1 million grant -- the largest in its history -- for a project designed to study epileptic seizures, the University will announce today. The grant will be the very first given out by the National...
Professor touts biomedical engineering gadgets
Imagine a microchip implant that could act like a miniature pharmacy inside your body, releasing medicines when it deemed necessary. Professor Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims this could be part of the future of drug...
Med school building on target
Staff Reporters More than two years ago, Yale announced it was planning to invest $500 million in Yale School of Medicine facilities over the next decade. With the completion of the $176.6 million Congress Avenue facility scheduled for November, the...
State biosciences industry prospering
Despite tough economic times nationally, Connecticut's biosciences industry is doing well, according to a new statewide economic report. At a conference Monday, Connecticut United for Research Excellence, a non-profit corporation, presented its Seventh...
Walking, the next generation
Engineer John Morrell '86 didn't give the opening remarks for his talk in Davies Auditorium from the normal podium -- he delivered them while cruising around the front of the room on what appeared to be a glorified motorized scooter. In the second of...
2 engineering professors win high honors
By the end of 1994, the papers and books of engineering professor Thomas Graedel, a specialist in industrial ecology, had been cited more than 2,200 times, placing his citation record among the top 1 percent of all active scientists. Thus it was hardly...
Prof brings physics to life in talk
In the fifth century B.C., Democritus developed the theory that objects were made up of atoms. In the 21st century, Yale applied physics professor Michel Devoret hopes do something as novel -- take quantum mechanics and build computers with it.
Researcher models black hole collision
The merging of two black holes is one of the strangest occurrences expected in modern astronomy. But now Yale researcher Priyamvada Natarajan, an assistant astronomy professor, is helping to solve the mystery behind the merging of these galactic...