Yale Department of Genetics

SAVE THE DATE! 03/24/26 for our Genetics Clinical Grand Rounds at 10:15am, Adelaide Schmoll, MD, Clinical Fellow presenting: "Clinical Overview of Skeletal Dysplasia." Link below... medicine.yale.edu/event/gencgran…

After promising trials, the first inhalable gene therapy for lung cancer has been fast-tracked for potential approval. Delivered via viral vector, it may expand treatment options and is now being tested with pembrolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer. newscientist.com/article/251518…

SAVE THE DATE! 03/24/26 for our Genetics Seminar Speaker Dr. Haiqi Chen, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, presenting: "Extrachromosomal Circular DNA Function as Mobile Elements to Disrupt the Integrity of the Germline Genome." Link below ... medicine.yale.edu/event/gensem03…

📣 Calling all Genetic Counselors! 📣 Come work directly w the Chief of Medical Genetics to spearhead our new precision medicine x AI project! Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to grow your career. Please RT! 🙏 careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/YUCY…

Some researchers may find themselves as the only member of their group in a department, or in a “solo status.” Learn this professor’s tips for fostering inclusion and supporting underrepresented colleagues in thoughtful ways. science.org/content/articl…

“Who is reading my work?” Research can feel trapped in academia or behind paywalls, far from the communities who could benefit. How can scientists expand real-world impact? See how one researcher ensures their work reaches beyond journals: nature.com/articles/d4158…

TODAY! 03/17/26 Genetics Seminar Speaker Dr. Matthias Hentze, MD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) presents: "Riboregulation: the story unfolds…." Link below... medicine.yale.edu/event/gensem03… All @yale affiliates welcome!

A ML model from a Yale team led by Smita Krishnaswamy @KrishnaswamyLab predicts which peptides trigger strong immune responses by incorporating structural + biochemical features missed by earlier models, with promising applications for immunotherapy. 💉💻 medicine.yale.edu/news-article/u…

Check out how a Yale researcher developed an algorithm that builds complete human genomes using standard lab techniques. This tool eliminates costly sequencing and could make genome assembly accessible for research and clinical diagnostics. medicine.yale.edu/biomedical-inf…

THANK YOU to our amazing exhibitors, volunteers, and everyone who attended Rare Disease Day at the Yale Peabody Museum! Your presence and passion made the evening truly memorable. We hope to see you all again soon! 💙💚🩷 #RareDiseaseDay #RDD2026 #YaleGenetics #NORD #RareDisease

A new paper from a team led by Yale Genetics faculty @sidichen reports that adding a single gene can boost CAR-NK immune therapy cells-dramatically improving tumor control in multiple solid tumor models. 🧬🔬 Read more here: news.yale.edu/2026/02/25/cra…

SAVE THE DATE! 03/17/26 for our Genetics Seminar Speaker Dr. Matthias Hentze, MD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) presenting: "Riboregulation: the story unfolds…." Link below... medicine.yale.edu/event/gensem03… All @yale affiliates welcome!

Dorceta Taylor, the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, built a career dismantling barriers in science and advancing equity in research. See how she’s reshaping science: nature.com/articles/d4158…

We are proud to share that @HaoyangWei_WHY, alum of @YaleGenetics, the Greco Lab and the Lu Lab, has joined @CellGenomics as a cross-journal scientific editor! We congratulate Haoyang on this new chapter in his career!

Glad to attend the 2026 Telluride Workshop on Physical Genomics and Transcriptional Engineering and to catch up with old friends and colleagues across the US. I just realized the seven scientists in this dinner photo likely have seven countries of origin, including Pakistan, India, China, America, Jordan, Israel and Italy, now working in UPenn, Yale, Northwestern, Brown, Stanford and UTexas. In a chaotic world, we meet and share our research with a common ideal: for the betterment of humankind. Thank you @TellurideSci for supporting the workshop! Thank you Prof. Vadim Backman for organizing the workshop and for inviting us!

Why do some cancers spread to specific organs? Researchers at YSM uncovered genetic clues behind the predisposition for a rare eye cancer to metastasize to the liver. Insights like these could guide monitoring and therapy decisions. Learn more: medicine.yale.edu/news-article/e…

Giving talks is central to research—but even strong science can fall flat without strong storytelling. What can scientists learn from performers? One immunologist reimagined talks as performances. See how they did it 🎤: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our very own Smita Krishnaswamy is a key investigator in the new $25M @CancerGrand Challenges REWIRE-CAN team! @KrishnaswamyLab will use cutting-edge ML to understand how to reprogram cancer cells. Learn more here 👇👇🏾👇🏽👇🏿👇🏻 medicine.yale.edu/genetics/news-…

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