Yale School of Medicine professor Ruslan Medzhitov was awarded the inaugural Else Kröner-Fresenius Award on Wednesday from the German organization Else KrönerFresenius Stiftung for his contributions to the field of immunobiology over the last two decades. Medzhitov has helped uncover the mysteries of the immune system, most notably through his research on Toll-like receptors – protein structures that »

Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, will be awarded the 2013 Connecticut Medal of Science, an award given to scientists who have made significant scientific achievement crucial to the state’s social well-being and economy. Steitz, the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, is known for his study of the structure and function »